why are people with higher education / who work jobs requiring higher education typically left leaning? I work as a lawfag in one of nation's bigger law firms. I'd estimate at least 90% of employees in the local office (lawyers, paralegals, clerks, etc.) are significantly left wing, whereas the right wing ones are typically right wing on economy issues, while being moderate or straight up left wing when it comes to social issues. I'm from Kentucky, so I imagine it can't be any better in left leaning states. from anecdotal evidence I've gathered that medical profession is in a similar shape.
>why are people that go to colleges full of literal communist professors and a hivemind NPC mentality coming out of these institutions with leftist worldviews?
Nicholas Sanchez
I know quite a few lawyers. Most are leftists.
I only knew one guy who was military, pro-police, etc. that was a right wing Fox News watcher. Knew another one that was an Israeli Jew that actually served in their army during some war, but even he was a registered Democrat. A lot of lawyers I've met are all extreme shitlibs. I know one pro-Trump girl who just got into law school.
Oliver Lee
its simple: academia selects for people with these political dispositions, while also racially discriminating against the most likely group to be right wing (whites)
its not because the most intelligent and elite people are left wing, its because our elite self select for it.
Bentley James
Ideological filtration all smart right wingers are forced into other occuptions
Isaac Nguyen
>Lawyers favor the party that wants to pass more laws, which will result in more work for lawyers. I can't understand why.
Everyone who has a J.D. also went through four years of Marxist brainwashing during undergrad. Plus i’d wager there isn’t a single right-wing (in the true sense of the word) law school in the nation. The closest you get is people who adhere to the whole law and economics school of thought, which is really about applying ideals of rationalism and economic policy to jurisprudence. Racialist lawyers are extremely rare because the education they get predisposes them to following one of the predominant socially-acceptable political narratives.
Plus, if a lawyer were a racialist, he can hardly come out and say it. He’d be fired immediately without hope of finding a new job. I would also add that most (not all) lawyers are by nature very conformist — calculating, cunning, and fully aware that coming out and revealing far right beliefs might as well be a criminal act in 2018.
Angel Roberts
College is liberal indoctrination centre
Luke Brooks
life experience would only apply to younger demographics. I'm talking about 40 year old people or older. see I'm talking about much older people, people with a lot of income, decent social standing, who have no need for government healthcare or education system or any other benefit. people who wouldn't go to jail for possession of meth and who couldn't possibly be the victims of voter suppression, yet many of them have political stances that don't reflect what they should nominally support.
>its simple: academia selects for people with these political dispositions, while also racially discriminating against the most likely group to be right wing (whites) I'll go ahead and call this bullshit on this one. From my own college experience as well as from my workplace, you will never ever see a non-white grad enrolled on legacy preference. Go to any law firm (again, from anecdotal evidence I assume this to be true for hospitals) and count the number of people who got into college, then later got into business thanks to legacy preference and family connections. Needless to say these people will inevitably be white. Yet again, their voting patterns don't reflect the desire to maintain the very system that gave them an objectively easy road to success. Shit, my family was nothing special, but even I got my first job thanks to my dad & uncle - can't imagine what the really connected families can pull.
maybe this. you can literally get disbarred for racism, assuming it gets nationwide traction. that said, I know a lot of people have somewhat racist opinions and I've yet to see more than a single black/non white couple at any dinner party I've attended or seen people organize (people post this shit on social media without exception). enough to infer that there really is no particular love between the overwhelmingly white demographics at work and non-whites, yet from the voting patterns you'd think they're Malcom X
Wyatt Long
Well it is usually the young ones who do it, all it takes is time to wear them down. I've seen new lawyers come in thinking that they would be activist lawyers only to end up going full gated community after 2 or 3 years, why? Their clients who are usually black treat them like shit, in some rare cases clients will physically attack their lawyers if they lose a case. Its not uncommon for activist lawyers to have their minority clients send them death threats for losing the case or making them take a deal. The same thing happens to white teachers who are leftist and go teach at black schools to end centuries of oppression. They teach for a few years then opt out and go t majority white private schools. Best way to teach a leftist professional is to have them suffer through experience.
Andrew Anderson
Because there is no such thing as left wing or right wing, 99% of people are non-ideological and only obey power. Those conformist high-IQ lawyers would have been ardent national socialists in the Third Reich.
It's the indoctrination they undergo at university.
Andrew Collins
>I know a lot of people have somewhat racist opinions and I've yet to see more than a single black/non white couple at any dinner party I've attended or seen people organize
This always cracks me up. The legal field is virtually all whites and Jews. They don’t like to mix with nonwhites at all. They don’t even have nonwhite friends in most cases, much less nonwhite sexual partners. And yet, they vote like Ocasio-Cortez...
Charles Campbell
liberal colleges employing liberal shills teaching liberal failed-abortions.
Literally a self-propagating vortex of scum
Chase Diaz
I worked for an Am Law 50 firm and looked up political contributions. Minorities and Jewish partners donated heavily for Democrats but white partners donated heavily for Republicans. The senior partner who loves bow ties donated to some Republicans but mostly to Libertarians. The problem is that large corporations and government clients require their law firms to have quotas for hiring all manner of minorities including those of all different sexualities. The firm couldn't go back to being primarily white males even if it wanted to because it'd lose most of its clients. Our partners in our Middle East offices must shake their heads when the firm does things like renaming the HR department to the "Department of Human Resources, Diversity, and Inclusion". Working for a company with so much money made for a very comfy working environment but I'm still glad I left. I hated seeing where it was going.
Ethan Collins
I think its because most of the people who have the ability to go into higher education have never had to actually deal with what many of the non-liberal citizens deal with. They had a nice upbringing, usually from families who have been pretty well off for several generations now and have absolutely no clue how things actually are as it hasn't affected them adversely.
I'm from a working class family and attend university, and the more liberal people come from wealthier backgrounds and haven't had to fight to stay in the middle class. I mean their parents are conservative most likely, but it's like they don't have an ability to emphasize with their fellow American, they would rather focus on folks from other countries.
I'm not saying we shouldn't try to help folks from other countries which are shit, but we need to look after our own citizens first.
Austin Nelson
Because government control supports their individual wants.
Samuel Adams
a lot of these people come from families with live-in maids and gardeners and whatnot, and get private education that I understand is really solid and non ideological (as a product of Kentucky's finest public schools, can't really attest to that). If you were native to this neck of the woods you'd instantly recognize many of these last names. trust me, these people were raised in no bleeding heart liberal families. Can't imagine that few years of college could erase 18 years of prior experience and supersede any post college experience.
I don't work criminal law, but this is definitely true of tiny minority of freshmen lawfags. The more experienced ones aren't likely to be moved by activism, and by more I mean they'd laugh you out of their offices lel. That said, can't talk about their voting patterns, since I'm not really that close with these guys.
>Minorities and Jewish partners donated heavily for Democrats but white partners donated heavily for Republicans From my experience this is mostly true. my firm isn't exactly Big Law, but we have nationwide offices so I imagine it's pretty much the same type of people working in both. The kicker here isn't that there are people voting/preferring GOP, but that their support for the GOP is mostly centered on capital gains tax, income tax, property tax or individual propositions and ordinances in relation to their business interest. I believe that a Democrat candidate with the same stance on these issues would likely win over 90% of votes in my workplace. Ocasio-Cortez would get 70% of votes by default, but Doug Jones would easily get 95%.
Parker Myers
This, plus the fact that your career will suffer if you don't mouth the correct slogans.
Dylan Morgan
I have two theories on that: 1. People who are wealthy have less incentive to vote against the established mainstream. People who are not wealthy have a reason to vote against the dominant political culture. Most people simply don't have political ideals, they will vote conformist as long as they are well off and non conformist when they are not doing well. If you take a look at other countries with more than 2 parties, you will notice that in surveys the support for a party often changes drastically over the course of a few weeks. It always stroke me how so many people could so often sway in their political opinion, since I would assume that political opinion is not so easily changed. I think this observation backs the first claim.
2. The city culture. Wealthy people usually live in large cities, and are therefore exposed to city culture. At the same time people in these places have less "connection" with the soil, causing a lack of national identity.
Evan Mitchell
Yep, pretty much this
Isaac Brown
This is the true answer
Adam Rogers
I guess. Voting Dem is seen as a default, non-confrontational vote, whereas GOP is more of a maverick choice (especially now with Trump). Your individual vote will never change anything, so I guess most of these people don't want to rock the boat. I voted GOP/Trump but never talk about it on the count of *better safe than sorry*. A colleague asked me after the Midterms who did you vote for and I gave a super-evasive: muh secret vote, muh beauty of our democracy; type of bullshit answer.
Plus a significant number of them are gunning for political careers afterwards and I imagine they're already planning on tapping that urbanite vote since rural districts typically vote for local/regional candidates
