Lesson 44: What To Say When Fox News Says You're Too Educated

Today’s lesson of Bossi’s Finishing School for Difficult Women teaches you how to respond when Fox News discourages education because smart people don’t vote for them.

[INSERT CLIP: Fox News Montage blaming education for liberal voters.]

When Jesse Watters and the sentient throw pillows of Fox & Friends say the problem is that voters are over-educated, play the clip again, then say:

Umm, do you hear yourselves? Admitting that the more educated people become, the less likely they are to vote for your policies is not the flex you think it is. Students aren’t going to college to learn some secret liberal handshake.

They’re studying history, science, economics, and critical thinking…and coming to the conclusion that you’re full of shit.

When they double down and use “education” like a slur, mocking leaders like Mamdani because they spent years in academia before entering politics, speak slowly so everyone on the couch can follow and say:

Honey, last time I checked, spending your twenties learning and then entering public service in your thirties because you want to make a difference is… literally how this is supposed to work.

But I understand why that might seem foreign when you’ve spent years cheering for old men whose primary qualification is owning several buildings and a personality disorder.

When Watters says college students “got everything free,” think America owes them something, and don’t want to work, have your fan handy and say:

Jesse, shut the fuck up. Students didn’t get shit for free. They borrowed tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege of entering a job market where the robot already got the interview.

Young people aren’t against earning their way. They’re against your generation pulling up the economic ladder and calling them lazy for not being able to climb it.

Remember, ladies and gents, if your ideas become less popular every time people learn more…the problem is not the books. The problem is what people discover when they open them.

Class dismissed. C.U.Next.Thursday.

We are in dangerous territory when political figures and media mouthpieces start treating education as a problem.

Not the cost of education, student debt, or whether every person needs a four-year degree. Education itself.

When Fox News hosts look at a group of voters, discover that more education makes them less likely to support their political movement, and decide the problem is that those people are over-educated, we should probably pause.

Because there is another possible, and more likely, conclusion: Maybe people learned something…