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I'm not sure what to think or say about the rest of your comment, but this part stood out to me:




See my thinking is that qanoners are overwhelmingly middle class and below, and a lot of them are the kind of people who couldn't go to college even if they could afford it, which they can't.




Anyone can afford to go to college.  Anyone.  It's just not that expensive.  Yes, it's a lot more expensive than it used to be, and yes, the ROI is not as obvious or inevitable (though it was never inevitable) as it once was.  But "working class" people buy more expensive things all the time--houses, boats, cars--and those things continue to cost money (beyond loan interest--there's also upkeep).  A wisely-curated program of education will in almost any economy be a better long term investment than any of those things.


What is not really plausibly "affordable" about education is failing.  Every semester, without fail, I have at least one student who never shows up for class.  Then, at the end of the semester, they tell me how they are running out of money and can I please pass them or else they will have to take the class again and they can't afford it...


The people who "can't afford" college are the people who lack the intellect and/or conscientiousness to learn at a higher level.  College costs way too much to go there when there is not a reasonable expectation of success.




I think the bigger problem is that our educated and wealthy people are worthless morons.




I think this is almost always false.  Our educated and wealthy people are only human, and in my experience almost all of them can have their substantive thinking overwhelmed, at least on occasion and maybe more than that, by the need for social signalling.  That is a different problem than being morons.  Indeed, I think most normies are pretty smart, within a baseline context of human flourishing--they're just that much more susceptible to focusing on sending the right signals rather than identifying substantially veridical facts.