Not an elitist prick wrote:
When you have people like Santorum out there saying the president is a snob for wanting people to go to college (and him gaining support after saying it), it should be pretty clear that it's mostly dumb-shit, right-wing nut jobs who think like that....
Two things.
First, though I (for various reasons) would never vote for Santorum, for anything, he happens to be correct: a majority of people should not attend (four-year) college. They assume a crippling amount of debt for a degree that simply doesn't help them. Four years of semi-sanctioned drinking is not enough compensation for what they give up: four years spent working and/or acquiring useful skills.
Second, I just realized that the main thesis of "The Bell Curve" is being borne out: American society is increasingly being stratified by intelligence. In earlier days in the country, class was determined primarily by wealth; now class is determined, with increasing frequency, primarily by intelligence and its proxy, education (and secondarily, if that, by wealth).
In any class system, it's natural for the large majority to envy/resent the "elite." Well, plenty of people still do that with the wealthy; but more people are recognizing the smart as the elite--and therefore as the majority's enemy.