That may become the only choice soon, if the universities implode under the weight of their administrative barnacles* and the populace in general turns to either home- or pod-schooling. **

“Are Democrats planning to simply abolish elections if they win in 2020?” – MBUnge

Elections are so Old Skul. Riots have replaced them.***

“From what I can tell via FB interactions with people who are liberal,educated etc, is that the Harris/Biden campaign is doing the correct strategy.” – physicsguy

That may be the Bubble talking.****

*Will the colleges choose CRT/SJW over Federal Funding, or throw their diversity officers under the school bus?
https://www.redstate.com/shipwreckedcrew/2020/09/23/pres-trumps-executive-order-banning-critical-race-theory-doctrine-will-rock-universities-across-the-country/

**Parents are not happy that unions have revealed their true agenda, which has nothing to do with educating the children.
https://www.redstate.com/kiradavis/2020/09/22/teachers-unions-putting-children-last/

***Riots are the new elections.
https://americanmind.org/features/ending-the-blm-revolution/the-riot-party/

****Democrats are Red-pilling the country.
https://www.redstate.com/brandon_morse/2020/09/07/left-exclusivity/

https://www.redstate.com/brandon_morse/2020/09/23/black-lives-matter-lose/

https://www.redstate.com/alexparker/2020/09/22/woke-harvard-westlake-project-anti-racism-hollywood-school/

Saving the best for last:
https://www.redstate.com/kiradavis/2020/09/23/jpsears-tells-america-live-california/

Prof. Jeffrey Perl has an intriguing entry in “The Great Courses” about Modernism, particularly strong on Eliot.

“Literary Modernism: The Struggle for Modern History”
https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/literary-modernism-the-struggle-for-modern-history.html

It upset some of my convenient simplifications about that era and who was who and why. I plan to revisit sometime soon.

It’s so great how many of “The Great Courses” I can check out of the library. This is a golden age of self-education for those who care to self-educate.

As it happens, in an earlier comment VDL dated his education with an allusion to Eliot’s “The Wasteland.”
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The change of Philomel, by the barbarous king
So rudely forced; yet there the nightingale
Filled all the desert with inviolable voice
And still she cried, and still the world pursues,
“Jug Jug” to dirty ears.

–T.S. Eliot, “The Wasteland”
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I’m not sure VDL’s allusion works. Philomel has been raped by King Tereus and the king cuts out her tongue so she can’t tell anyone. She becomes a nightingale and cries out but the people are impure, so they can’t understand and only hear, “Jug Jug.”

I guess VDL is saying that Biden is a hand-puppet raped by his Democrat handlers and Americans can’t understand Biden is really talking about his rape. Hmm…

Anyway. That’s what it’s like to read T.S. Eliot. I was never convinced Eliot’s vision was what the ultimate poetry should be, but I was impressed by his ambition, knowledge and discipline. As poetry has become more political, postmodern and,to my mind, shoddier, I miss Eliot.

I caught the tail end of that academic golden age, when professors were scary-smart and burning with a mission for knowledge. Or that was at least the image they cultivated.

For instance, in 1989 for the New Yorker Cynthia Ozick wrote “T.S. Eliot at 101”, a reexamination of Eliot as a writer and a phenom. I liked her essay so much, I ocr’ed it and saved it. Here are a few paragraphs (with my bolding) from the first page.
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But by the close of the eighties only “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” appears to have survived the indifference of the schools—-as two or three pages in the anthologies, a fleeting assignment for high- school seniors and college freshmen. “Prufrock,” and “Prufrock” alone, is what the latest generations know (barely know): not “The Hollow Men,” not “La Figlia the Piange,” not “Ash Wednesday”—-not even “The Waste Land.” Never “Four Quartets.” And the mammoth prophetic presence of T. S. Eliot himself-—that immortal, sovereign rock-—the latest generations do not know at all.

To anyone who was an undergraduate in the forties or the fifties (or possibly even in the first years of the sixties), all that is inconceivable—-as if a part of the horizon had crumbled away. When, four decades ago, in a literary period that resembled eternity, T. S. Eliot won the Nobel Prize in Literature, he seemed pure zenith, a colossus, nothing less than a permanent luminary, fixed in the firmament like the sun and the moon—-or like the New Criticism, the vanished movement he once magisterially dominated.

Here’s the link to the Zogby poll:
https://johnzogbystrategies.com/biden-leads-trump-by-6-points-lead-drops-to-3-points-with-four-candidates-but-voters-still-think-trump-will-win-in-november/

and here’s the article from which I got that data.

“Support for President Trump has surged in the black community, according to three recent polls.”
https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/09/01/polls-support-for-president-trump-surges-in-black-community/

I would contend that the ‘education’ “liberal arts” students receive to day is so lacking as to equate to no education at all but fully qualifies as an indoctrination commensurate with China’s.

GB: ‘educated” in the sense they are white, suburban, college educated, liberals, lacking common sense and infected heavily with TDS. You’re correct though that “educated” today means a lot less than “educated” 50 years ago, or even 20 years ago.

Could you provide a link to the Zogby poll?

Zogby is so often the wildest of wild cards…sometimes spot on when all the other polls are wrong, but also sometimes absurdly wrong itself.

I mean…20% of the black vote (Trump got 8% in 2016) combined with 37% of the Hispanic vote (Trump got 29% in 2016) not only ensures a victory (even if Trump dips a little with whites) but makes a sizeable victory likely. Of course, it depends largely on distribution, but those numbers likely secure Florida and Ohio, make Michigan, Pennsylvania and Arizona heavily favored for the President and put Colorado, Nevada and Virginia in doubt for Democrats. Hell, with those numbers, Trump might even have a shot in New Jersey!

“About 2% of the working lawyers in the United States are black women. Foolish to box yourself in this way.”

“a Zogby poll released on Monday showed 20 percent of black voters intend to vote for Trump instead of Biden.”

“37% of Hispanic voters favor Trump over Biden”

I expect those numbers to increase in reaction to the coming democrat insanity.

physicsguy,

“From what I can tell via FB interactions with people who are liberal,educated etc, is that the Harris/Biden campaign is doing the correct strategy.”

Liberal? Yes. Educated? No.