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Here at TPOL we constantly emphasize the importance of education for lovers of liberty and those who advocate for liberty.

Tom Woods and others pointed out the impact as we start February. “Elite” Ivy League graduates were asked, is there too much individual liberty, too much government control, or a good balance between the two. Here in the Fifty States.

The numbers are telling: 55% said “too much” individual liberty, 30% thought there was a good balance, and a mere 15% said there was too much government control. In contrast, ordinary American voters reversed the numbers. A good 57% said there was too much government control and only 16% claimed there was too much individual liberty.

The other question to the “elites” was: in order to fight climate change, would you favor or oppose the strict rationing of gas, meat, and electricity? A staggering 89% of Ivy Leaguers would favor it, but just 28% of normal people favor it.

Keep in mind that these Ivy League goobers consider themselves elite. And as a whole, the nation – especially the politicians, decision-makers and big business types – also consider them to be the cream of the crop. They are – in their own view – the hidalgos and the rest of us peons. (When I say, “they” I know that there are some – perhaps as many as 3 or 4 percent – of Ivy League grads who are NOT of that attitude. But I suspect that many of those who cast a “vote” for “too much government control” are still arrogant elitists.

But the question is “why?” are these people that way?

The answer is education. Both good and bad.

Many (most?) of those who go to and graduate from the Ivy League schools are children of “elite families” who are raised and taught to consider themselves part of that upper 3-10% – the powers-that-be. They have that silver spoon in their mouth when born, and go to the high-powered private and prep schools, and they and their parents punch the right tickets to be admitted to the schools and the upper crust. That includes many ideas that make them dislike – even hate – liberty for others. That is, of course, something that they deserve because of their ancestry, their education, their skills.

Of course, there are those from the lower classes who get admitted, also. But often they are taught the same nonsense in schools and by their parents. Even more effort is made by the administration and faculties of the Ivy League schools to ensure that these people are taught that to be part of the upper, ruling classes, they must reject whatever ideas they might have been given by parents and communities that are contrary to the ideas of privilege and power. They are upwardly mobile, but must be made to conform to the standards.

And most of the time, it seems to work: the poor white (or black or whatever) trash become even more arrogant than those who have generations of aristocracy behind them.

The counter to that, of course, is education. In particular by lovers of liberty who are parents of young and school-age children. But also the education of adults – a harder job because we must first unlearn what we have been indoctrinated with for 13 or more years. With the so-called elite running things, it is even more difficult. But it CAN be done.