The Entirety Of Steve’s “Chart” Today Is Explained By Levels Of Educational Attainment, By Democrats.

Let us stipulate — at the outset, that Steve Hayward’s “charts of the day”, about 90% of the time… rely either on (i) faulty data, or (ii) directly misstate the data that they do purport to depict.

But he does — on rare occasion — offer charts that are completely explainable, by simply looking at them, without the overlay of his odious prejudices. Today is just such a day.

Of course — he never states the obvious, and simplest explanations, preferring to reach for bizarre conspiracies he claims to see being orchestrated — against the frothy hard right.

His false conclusion — from today’s chart, is that Republicans, regardless of level of education — report about equal numbers of friends who do not share their views. That bit of data is explainable by the fact that there are far fewer Republicans, than there are Democrats, at every educational level in the United States. When you are the minority “view” — as Steve is, you will report lots of “friends” who do not share your views. Pretty simple.

The second part of his chart depicts a rising number of Democrats who self report as having mostly friends who share their views, as their educational attainment level rises.

Instead of Steve’s silly explanation, I would offer that… as a person becomes more educated, and more aware of both national and international policy implications, from democratic as well as republican points of view… one clearly recognizes that — especially as to MAGA Republicans, they hold views that are mostly 18th or 19th century based — and thus long discredited — in polite society.

This is true of both economics, and race/civil rights, generally.

Increasingly, it is also true of women’s rights to autonomy over their own bodies, and shockingly, now extends to denying rights to women who are not married and don’t have children.

That sort of insanity is the stuff that educated Democrats are utterly allergic to.

As people become more educated, they are less likely to fall for Trumpian nonsense.

That at bottom is all his chart depicts.

You heard it here first.