MSNBC host accidentally nails it… The far-left is driven by over-educated failures who can’t succeed in the real world, which is why they overwhelmingly hide in academia, NGOs and push socialism.
Chris Hayes
@chrislhayes
Jul 21
Replying to @NateSilver538
The most left wing people in America are people with post graduate degrees who are financially strapped and the most right wing are people without 4 year college degrees who are rich.

Last edited Jul 21, 2026 · 4:19 PM UTC

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Replying to @Geiger_Capital
lol
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Credentialed and broke is the most combustible demographic. Folks who build nothing need politics to matter.
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Being educated isn’t the flex it once was. Just means you kicked the can down the road and went into horrid debt
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Which is also why they freaked out so much when USAID and other program funding for NGOs got gutted. Now, not only are they over *educated* (I would say credentialed instead) and useless in the capitalist workforce, they’re unemployable.
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Replying to @Geiger_Capital @joshuamercer
They are not “over” educated — they just tend have expensive, non-rigorous degrees in fields that are dependent on government funding
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@whatifalthist
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you see that with @NYCMayor supporters, unable to afford expensive NYC rents with their ______-Studies degrees, and somehow think it was their right to
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this is very true most of my friends are MAGA and we made it with hard work and are all mostly multi-millionaires so i agree with that statement. ps college kids think they are smart because they went to school THIS IS NOT THE CASE. the smartest people i know don't have long extended educations and are very rich. btw i would not call us "most right wing" we are much closer to the center than he thinks
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Replying to @Geiger_Capital
Take one more step and recognize that "these people" constitute a cognitive class comprising ~1.5% of the population, with a core of 1% of the total. This is the "Outer" and "Inner" party of the 1st Estate, and these numbers are consistent across cultures. They're Priests.
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Replying to @Geiger_Capital @Liberta_Massimo
Mommy and Daddy can pay for college but they can’t buy smarts, common sense and decency.
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My dad is a high school dropout entrepreneur that makes 200k+ , God bless him. Taught me how to get it out the mud and not be a crybaby loser like these DSA freaks.
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Replying to @Geiger_Capital
Being a right winger and making money is easy, all you gotta do is say you love Trump and he’s your daddy, say you love god and place a random bible verse in your bio
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A lot of issues in the US are downstream of the American Right abandoning and ceding the education system to the Left who's now been dominating it for decades.
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I'm not rich, in my view, but I have an MS in Engineering and MPA in Accounting. Republican yes, right wing - don't know how to define that.
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Replying to @Geiger_Capital
I always liked the way they dressed Hayes in really tight collars to make his head seem bigger. Impressive
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A lot of over educated millennials were willing to pay colleges for affirmation, via degrees that they didn’t really want to utilize, and universities were happy to create entire departments that feed the ego but have no practical application. Now they’re middle aged and bitter.
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Exactly. Someone confused credentialing with actual achievement.
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That he’s too retarded to realize the point he made is peak MSNOW.
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Well said.
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Replying to @Geiger_Capital @MrShermichael
Educated is a loaded term here. What kind of degree(s) do they have?
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An education is only worth what you can do with it.
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Replying to @Geiger_Capital @AriFleischer
The essence of socialism is for those who couldn’t or are too lazy to compete to manipulate / change / reinvent rules to gain power over the others so they can take it away from the ones who can.
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Replying to @Geiger_Capital
It’s the same over the pond! In fact there are many similarities over here, to America under the Democrats, it’s actually laughable how predictable the globalist left are.
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They are a bunch of high IQ rule-followers who are upset that their victories under a hot-house set of rules, created and protected by institutional position, don't confer much status outside those hot-houses. Their solution is to impose those rules on everyone everywhere.
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This is a great thread. From 3 years ago too! Described that over-educated, (in slop not STEM) under-earning leftist perfectly. x.com/RobProvince/status/166…
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Replying to @Geiger_Capital
I have long referred to it as the producers vs the politicians Even inside corporate America at some point people realize they can’t outperform some co workers so they start to undermine them. Usually it’s they have “too strong a personality for leadership”
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Replying to @Geiger_Capital
This is why they keep shrieking about USAID cuts
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Replying to @Geiger_Capital
I can't believe Chris posted that 😂 He is right... and he didn't even realize what he said!
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Replying to @Geiger_Capital
Absolutely NAILED IT! 🍻
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Replying to @Geiger_Capital @Selkis_2028
Douche bag Obama took over student loans, made easy money available so gullible idiots could to go to college and become radicalized community organizers with no marketable skills.
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Replying to @Geiger_Capital @mileymckenna9
Right wing includes folks w post education degrees who were successful and escaped poverty via education/meriticracy!
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💯! But to them theirs is the *real* world. A world of professional tenure, entitlement, grant funding, all providing for a comfortable life of investing in luxury beliefs. Of course theirs is the real meritocracy wherein anyone who thinks unlike them are just not good enough.
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Well they have to try to use their masters degree in sociology for something
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Modern leftists hate the world because they think the world owes them something. These people intensely studied literature, philosophy, international relations and they see someone who went to school for 2 years outclassing them. They think the world is unjust.
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“Over-educated” is the kind of concept only a right-winger could think is real
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