{"id":21797,"date":"2026-07-30T07:36:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T02:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=21797"},"modified":"2026-07-30T07:36:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T02:36:40","slug":"our-incredibly-dumb-highly-educated-kid-fearing-socialists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=21797","title":{"rendered":"Our incredibly dumb, highly-educated, kid-fearing socialists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div xmlns:default=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\">\n<p><strong>1. Defund the colleges<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>by Mike Solana, editor in chief<\/p>\n<p>In new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.natesilver.net\/p\/the-dsa-sweet-spot-highly-educated\">analysis<\/a> from Nate Silver, we discover what most of us have long suspected: the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/07\/04\/media\/aoc-2028-presidential-run-would-thrill-many-in-democratic-socialists-of-america-leader-says\/\">Democratic Socialists of America<\/a>, a political organization seeking to abolish the Senate, the Supreme Court and the Executive, and to seize most American industry and run it all centrally from Hasan Piker\u2019s Dumb Politburo, is especially popular among the highly-educated\u2026 but not just any highly-educated. <\/p>\n<p>No, it seems broke losers with bachelors (sub $60K a year) are the most likely to find the work of Mao Zedong compelling. <\/p>\n<p>But did the colleges make our most downwardly mobile elites communist, or are communists just uniquely a sort of people who would expect society to provide them with a ladder to riches, and then seek to destroy the world because their doctorate in queer theory didn\u2019t communicate to a home in the Hamptons like their parents had? <\/p>\n<p>Who knows. Who cares! Just defund the colleges already.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><button class=\"button button--modal-trigger\" aria-label=\"Open the image in a modal.\" data-modal-image=\"40128476\"><br \/>\n\t<default:svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"icon-plus\" fill=\"#fff\" viewbox=\"0 0 1033 1000\" width=\"1em\" height=\"1em\"><default:path d=\"M380 364V0h273v355h380v290H653v355H380V645H0V355h380v9z\"\/><\/default:svg><br \/>\n<\/button><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.3044586;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"40128476\" width=\"770\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/new-york-city-democratic-socialists-135906552.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"A person in a red beanie and dark jacket holds up a &quot;Tax The Rich, Fund Child Care&quot; sign at a NYC-DSA rally in Union Square.\" class=\"wp-image-40128476\" 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https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/new-york-city-democratic-socialists-135906552.jpg?resize=231,177&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 231w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/new-york-city-democratic-socialists-135906552.jpg?resize=322,247&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 322w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/new-york-city-democratic-socialists-135906552.jpg?resize=575,441&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 575w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/new-york-city-democratic-socialists-135906552.jpg?resize=78,60&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 78w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/new-york-city-democratic-socialists-135906552.jpg?resize=104,80&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 104w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/new-york-city-democratic-socialists-135906552.jpg?resize=1200,920&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 1200w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/new-york-city-democratic-socialists-135906552.jpg?resize=76,58&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/new-york-city-democratic-socialists-135906552.jpg?resize=204,156&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 204w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/new-york-city-democratic-socialists-135906552.jpg?resize=50,38&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\"\/><figcaption>No, it seems broke losers with bachelors (sub $60K a year) are the most likely to find the work of Mao Zedong compelling.  <span class=\"credit\">Anadolu via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>2. Democracy dies in laughter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>by Riley Nork, writer<\/p>\n<p>At last week\u2019s White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner, President Trump slipped into a rare Bodhisattva-like comedic flow state, waxing poetically about Chris Christie fighting for cheesecake at the next UFC event, a hostile regime now being run by a gay dictator (CBS News and Bari Weiss, respectively), and CNN\u2019s Kaitlan Collins bearing an uncanny resemblance to trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney. <\/p>\n<p>It was all in good fun, but the press had a decidedly different reaction: To them, Trump\u2019s riffs were cause for ending the WHCD altogether. <\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Download The California Post App, follow us on social, and subscribe to our newsletters <\/strong><\/h2>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p><strong>California Post News<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheCaliforniaPost\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/californiapost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@CaliforniaPost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TikTok<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/californiapost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">X<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@thecaliforniapost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029Vb6a2IV1NCrL6q2AWq0E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/linkedin.com\/company\/californiapost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a><br \/><strong>California Post Sports<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/capostsports\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/capostsports\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@capostsports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TikTok<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@CaliforniaPostSports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/capostsports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">X<\/a><br \/><strong>California Post  <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/californiapost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Opinion<\/a> <br \/><strong>California Post Newsletters<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/email.nypost.com\/#california-post\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sign up here!<\/a><br \/><strong>California Post App<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/california-post\/id6751343487\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download here!<\/a><br \/><strong>Home delivery<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/subscribe.californiapost.com\/defaultCAP\">Sign up here!<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/california-post\/id6751343487\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/><\/a><strong>Page Six Hollywood<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/hollywood-signup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sign up here!<\/a><\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Per the Washington Post, critics are now citing the president\u2019s \u201cbroadsides\u201d against the media to call for permanently ending the dinner, since it was\u00a0supposed\u00a0to be a serious event honoring the serious work of serious mainstream journalism. <\/p>\n<p>Funny\u2026 I don\u2019t remember these calls when Obama and Colbert were the ones making the jokes! But hey, nothing says \u201cwinning back trust in media\u201d like \u201cdon\u2019t roast us or we\u2019ll pack up and cry.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><button class=\"button button--modal-trigger\" aria-label=\"Open the image in a modal.\" data-modal-image=\"40128475\"><br \/>\n\t<default:svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"icon-plus\" fill=\"#fff\" viewbox=\"0 0 1033 1000\" width=\"1em\" height=\"1em\"><default:path d=\"M380 364V0h273v355h380v290H653v355H380V645H0V355h380v9z\"\/><\/default:svg><br \/>\n<\/button><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"40128475\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/issue-extending-endorsement-window-los-135906553.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"People voting with pink and white cards at a Democratic Socialists of America chapter meeting.\" class=\"wp-image-40128475\" 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https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/issue-extending-endorsement-window-los-135906553.jpg?resize=1038,692&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 1038w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/issue-extending-endorsement-window-los-135906553.jpg?resize=87,58&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 87w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/issue-extending-endorsement-window-los-135906553.jpg?resize=50,33&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 885px) 100vw, 885px\"\/><figcaption>It was all in good fun, but the press had a decidedly different reaction: To them, Trump\u2019s riffs were cause for ending the WHCD altogether.  <span class=\"credit\">Los Angeles Times via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"single__inline-module inline-module inline-module--newsletter aligncenter inline-module--nypostbusinessunit aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-newsletter\" data-source-unit=\"Inline Newsletter Module Cali - Morning Report\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__inner\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__title-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__unsubmitted-title-wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"inline-module__title headline headline--combo-sm-md\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSign up for the California Morning Report newsletter\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCalifornia&#8217;s top news, sports and entertainment delivered to your inbox every day.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><h3 class=\"inline-module__title headline headline--combo-sm-md\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>3. Exciting new birth control method called \u2018socialism<\/strong>\u2018<\/p>\n<p>by Max Weiner, head of operations<\/p>\n<p>The socialist city may promise to care for every child \u2014 but increasingly, it just doesn\u2019t contain any. <\/p>\n<p>A new Wall Street Journal analysis finds that, over the past decade, American cities lost children six times faster than the country overall. <\/p>\n<p>Some cities that grew\u00a0<em>still<\/em>\u00a0lost kids, replacing families with trust-fund singles, yuppies, and people too poor to leave. Meanwhile, the five fastest-growing American cities in 2025? <\/p>\n<p>Well, they were all exurbs in Texas. To state the obvious revealed preference: Middle-class moms and dads do not want to raise their kids amongst dangerous fentanyl addicts while spending 70% of their income on housing, all while sending little Johnny to chaotic public schools (with the fent addicts\u2019 dealers\u2019 kids), so they leave. <\/p>\n<p>In that void, the DSA happily agitates for class warfare, because the actual solution (building housing) requires motivated capitalists \u2014 whom DSA leaders hate more than their dads.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Defund the colleges by Mike Solana, editor in chief In new analysis from Nate Silver, we discover what most of us have long suspected: the Democratic Socialists of America, a political organization seeking to abolish the Senate, the Supreme Court and the Executive, and to seize most American industry and run it all centrally&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/135906925.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pics-news"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}