Go figure

Tom Krannawitter writes,

At one end of the education spectrum in the United States are adults who never finished high school. As a statistical, demographic fact, they tend to identify as "liberal" or "progressive," and to the extent they vote, they tend to vote for Democrats.

Those in the middle of the education spectrum -- having graduated from high school and have some college under their belt or earned an undergraduate degree -- tend to be non-progressive, and they tend not to vote for Democrats.

Those with the highest levels of formal education -- completing graduate-level programs that result in some form of a terminal degree, such as a J.D., M.D., or Ph.D. -- are similar, politically, to those with the least formal education: they identify as "liberal" or "progressive," and to the extent they vote, they tend to vote for Democrats.
This could mean that the most educated, smartest Americans are liberal, progressive, Democrat. Or that liberalism, progressivism, and the Democratic Party attract the smartest, most educated citizens among us.

Or it could mean that our universities and graduate schools are very effective at training Americans to be liberals, progressives, and Democrats.

Or it could mean that the most educated, smartest Americans know not much more about politics than Americans with the least education.

More research is needed. Stay tuned.