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I find this post to be generating a sentiment I generally agree with, and I also would point to there being a very important sub-portion of government that the split between liberals and conservatives seem to be fracturing around: Education.
If you are a conservative and went to public schools, you generally think a minority of your teachers were good and fair. If you are a progressive, the opposite is generally true. From 1st -12th grade I had 2 teachers total I would put in the category of good and fair. The vast majority were either unfair or bad, and a solid 70%+ were both.
This is all while I am a solid A student for all these years. I did not think these teachers were bad or unfair because they gave me bad grades, they were bad and unfair based on my other judgements. Usually how they treated other students, or how they expected ridiculous things from me like constantly pairing me in group projects with dumb/violent kids. Progressive kids I think generally like teachers. I think a lot of that is that they got good grades. Whence we are seeing the large M/F gap in both college attendance and partisanship. Girls keep getting good grades that are unearned in K-12, boys consistently over-perform on standardized tests now. Girls are getting more progressive, boys less so. Boys are seeing this unfairness more and more. On both ends. The 4.0 boy and the 2.0 boy are both being massively discriminated against in the most public facing institution in our government, the schools. And that is being reflected in poll results.
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