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Originally Posted by flamesfever
yes, but (1) do the majority of them have enough experience and knowledge to make an informed decision? (2) Are they able to set priorities? (3) Can they be over influenced by teachers or social media? (4) It seems that the extreme environmentalists have set their sights on the younger vote with their scare tactics.
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1. Probably, but it depends on the educator.
2. Probably, but it depends on the individual.
3. Maybe, but it depends on the educator and the individual.
4. Laugh out ####ing loud.
Having been employed in the post-secondary education industry, I witnessed Brian Jean bend over backwards to get onto college campuses in this province. The Wildrose party were trying to combat a manufactured myth that colleges and education in general were indoctrination camps for capital L liberal ideology.
The problem was that anyone with an education understood that capital C conservatives were more concerned about their base being holistically educated.
Brian Jean managed to swoon his way with a compromised Student Union president at then RDC (SURPRISE: they subsequently received a prestigious position in his campaign after exiting their presidency) and held a public propaganda session in the Margaret Parsons Theatre, and it went as well as you could expect. The room ate him alive because they had been exposed to experiences and ideas outside of the rural bubble, even at what has always been essentially a trades college.
Environmentalists haven't set their "scare tactics on the younger vote". A decent education has given them something to think about, which is a dangerous prospect if you're a conservative in this province.
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I worry about the "dumbing down" of the voting base. It's already at an all time low in my estimation.
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Hence why we have Facebook and YouTube "professionals" entrenching their ideology with the uneducated and ignorant, convincing them that Western Standard, Rebel, and inquisitive minds like Keean ####ing Bexte (who was a complete wiener when I went to school with him at U of C) are the real truth tellers in this world.
This isn't to equate that some arbitrary level of education = liberal/conservative, or left/right. Sheltered ignorance, however, is a powerful weapon and I've seen Conservative parties consistently pursue the dismantling of education as a means to ensure their own stranglehold on the voting populace.