Radicalized by Higher Education

 

Is college radicalizing Americans?  This chart demonstrates that those most in favor of violence are the most educated.  That strikes me as backwards.  Shouldn't more education lead to less support of violence?

When Good Will Hunting was all the rage in the theaters, I recall being unimpressed.  Sure, Robin Williams was great, but this Will Hunting guy didn't make sense to me.  He is a genius and a prolific reader with an encyclopedic knowledge of many subjects who is nonetheless prone to violence.  He's both the smartest person in the room but dumb as a box of rocks.  Smart people avoid violence whenever possible, but not this guy.

The chart shows a clear correlation between the amount of education and the acceptability of violence to get one's way.  It is interesting how it goes down with 2 years of college but rises afterwards.  Odd.  Maybe Good Will Hunting understood something that I didn't.

Cole Allen, the would-be assassin, has a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, a master's in computer science, and clearly falls into the 40% of graduates who believe violence is necessary.

Yet Another Assassin

Cole Thomas Allen, a 31-year-old teacher from California, sprinted into the Correspondents' Dinner last night with guns and knives.  He shot one Secret Service agent before being subdued.  President Trump, the First Lady, VP, Secretary of State, Secretary of War, and many others were quickly evacuated.

Yet again, a crackpot has sought to kill Donald Trump.  Leftist pundits like Hassan Piker have floated the idea that it would be great if someone would assassinate Trump.  In response to the assassination attempt last night, a Wisconsin brewery announced that it would distribute free beer the day after Trump's murder.  Accusing Trump of being a fascist or a new iteration of Hitler is so common as to be unremarkable now.  And what is one of the most common bits of time travel stories: kill Hitler to prevent the Holocaust.  The assassin in such sci-fi is lauded.  Ergo, if Trump is Hitler and it would have been commendable to kill Hitler before he could carry out his policies, then it follows that killing Trump is not only logical, but worthy of praise.

If one person out of a hundred thousand is dumb enough to swallow the fallacy that Trump is the next coming of Hitler, that would create more than 3,000 potential assassins in the US.  People who disagreed with Charlie Kirk, who had no ability to implement any policies, called him a fascist.  A crackpot came out of the woodwork and killed him.  Leftists not only approved of his murder, they posted themselves celebrating online.

This is why Tim Pool thinks we may already be in a Civil War.  We're certainly in a time that echoes the 1850s.