I'm worried this could lead Republicans to the perverse incentives that Southern Democrats had after Reconstruction ended - to deliberately retard economic growth to cement their hold on power.
Send more people to college? Can't have that. They'll be exposed to that SJW nonsense.
Get more people employed in jobs involving critical thinking and human interaction? No! They'll just start voting for Democrats. They need to be mining coal or ringing up groceries at Dollar General. Nothing more.
Wealthy GOP donors will be fine with that. If they want exposure to growing economies, they can just invest in foreign companies. Meanwhile at home they'd be able to permanently maintain a position where they have the largest slice of a stagnant or shrinking pie, so they will always be at the top of the socioeconomic hierarchy.
Social mobility would reach a standstill, public investment in education and infrastructure would halt. The bottom 75% of the population would be living in dire poverty. The nonwhite elements of that would be excluded from the political process and frequently abused by law enforcement - basically treated like South African blacks or Brazilian pardos. The white poors would be given a sense of purpose in life through televised agitprop and participating in Alt Right vigilante groups, or encouraged to become police officers or join the military; those not interested in or suited to these jobs would be encouraged to stay in their mobile homes in opioid-induced stupors.
The next 24% would be the white bourgeoisie who manage the stagnant industries and provide professional services - defending coal companies when they are sued by the EPA, being the superintendent of the White Christians-only for-profit charter school, writing bad takes for the Heritage Foundation and AEI.
And then there would be the 1% who write the checks to the GOP and are firmly ensconced in their positions of wealth. This group would live in NYC, DC and the Bay Area, and are insulated from the neglect and disinvestment the GOP has treated Flyover Country with. Ironically, they engage in exactly the sort of behaviors the GOP's propaganda demonizes as "liberal elitism." They eat organic food, don't go to church, and vacation in Europe. If their daughters or wives want or need an abortion, they will be able to easily get one.
Oh boy. You really misunderstand the argument people make about universities and jobs, as well as misunderstanding how the economy works. We could send every person in the USA to a 4-year university to get an education. Would that get them all a job? No. Why not? Because sending people to universities doesn't create jobs. Businesses create jobs and then people fill those jobs, and if people want a job that takes a higher level of skillset, they go to universities to get that education.
What's going on right now is everybody is being encouraged to go to universities and there just aren't enough high skill jobs for all of them. So after people go to these universities, there's no job for them to get often times, even though they promised there would be one waiting. Meanwhile, people going to tech schools incurring much less debt are finding good paying jobs much more easily.
All groups of people should have the ability to go to universities, but our goal as a society shouldn't be to send the entire population to a university. That is expensive and unnecessary. We need to do a better job informing kids coming out of high school what ALL of their options and support them even when their choice isn't to go to a university.
As for the SJW in universities issue, that is an issue. It's not an issue because people run into SJWs, it's an issue because the SJWs are pushing political agendas more than they are trying to teach people to get them into work. Most of these gender studies majors don't lead to many job opportunities, and kids don't necessarily understand that coming out of high school.
Your Marxist ideals are getting in the way of you understanding those you disagree with.
