Education. Some fear it, say that educated people are a threat to the uneducated, "lefty liberals" try to shut down free speech and run only LGBTQQPPC and "arts" courses (they don't call it Liberal Arts for nothing). When your "education" institutions have thoroughly clamped down on free speech and the average "educated" person has disdain for classical education, perhaps you -ought- be fearing your education institutions. This classic interview with an ex-KGB officer shall forever go down in history as oh so poignant: Ex-KGB officer Yuri Bezmenov Explains United States Targeted Public Schools for Change https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obr1XqUPEII (17 minutes) A great quote from a slashdot commenter in the following article, responding in exasperation to someone using language <ahem>liberally</>: "It's not ad hominem to accuse someone of a position that they hold." Of course, logic never was a unit in your local Liberal Arts "degree" ... In America, Most Republicans Think Colleges Are Bad for the Country https://news.slashdot.org/story/17/07/15/0037248/in-america-most-republicans... An anonymous reader quotes the Chronicle of Higher Education: A majority of Republicans and right-leaning independents think higher education has a negative effect on the country, according to a new study released by the Pew Research Center on Monday. The same study has found a consistent increase in distrust of colleges and universities since 2010, when negative perceptions among Republicans was measured at 32 percent. That number now stands at 58 percent. By comparison, 72 percent of Democrats or left-leaning Independents in the study said colleges and universities have a positive impact on the United States... In the Pew Research Center's study, distrust of colleges was strongest in the highest income bracket and the oldest age group, with approval levels of just 31 percent among respondents whose family income exceeds $75,000 a year and 27 percent among those older than 65.