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Today the greatest fault line in American politics is not race, gender or geography
— it is educational attainment.
In 1960, John F. Kennedy won 52 percent of voters with only high-school diplomas, but lost college-educated voters with only 39 percent.
By the time Joe Biden ran for president 60 years later, that trend had reversed:
Biden won 56 percent of voters with college degrees, and lost voters with only high-school educations with just 41 percent.
“There’s a point at which that inversion becomes so great that Democrats can no longer win national majorities,” says #Jonathan #Cowan, the president of Third Way, a center-left policy institute.
(In 2020, Americans without college degrees made up three out of five voters.)
“So that means that Democrats as a whole need to be constantly on the lookout for people who can break the faculty-lounge stranglehold.”
#Jonathan #Cowan is a co-founder of
Lead...or Leave,
Third Way organization,
and now active advisor for the new The Can Kicks Back campaign.
Both Lead...or Leave and Third Way have lost momentum but had tried to gather youth support for anti-social security and medicare policies.
In reality, these organizations used a loose and misleading definition of "membership" to appear to have a much larger, and younger following than they did.
The Can Kicks Back is now working to gather and represent youth to fight the deficit and has been connected to the Fix the Debt campaign