So many of their “icons” basically boil down to “I go to colleges and troll people” (to the point of 30 year old losers like Ben shapiro still hanging out at and constantly talking about college campuses).
It feels like higher education is less and less relevant to material reality, it just seems such a bizarre area for them to focus so much propagandistic effort towards.
Because they hate higher education. The masses being educated means less underqualified workers that are desperate for any job you give them, no matter how shitty.
Education and a degree (used to) be a bargaining chip people could use to show they were a 'skilled worker' and therefore worth more to the employer, thus giving them a little more job protection than an 'unskilled' worker.
This is why higher education has been attacked almost as much as unions. Now disregarded by boomers as 'not experienced workers' (despite most degrees requiring practical experience) because most boomers now either own companies and want cheap exploitable labor, or entered the workforce when training came with the job. Higher Education has also now been made more and more expensive and ridiculed as elite (which it wouldn't be if education were free like it should be), further pushing the poorer classes out of the realm of job security enjoyed by the wealthy. "Oh, you now have an education debt and we won't hire you (because we decided your degree is useless)? Guess you should have known your place and started burger-flipping from the start like a good little poor."
To the 1%, if you're poor then you're not worthy of an education and a good job straight out of school. To them a good job comes from pedigree and higher education is something you do for fun "Ugh, owning dads business is boring, I think I'll go be a lawyer for a few years and see what that's like" Unless you're born into wealth they expect you to show you 'of worth' by starting your own business and proving that you deserve to be part of the lineage. They need someone to clean the toilets after all, not everyone can be a part of the chosen few. The beliefs of the wealthy are very spiritual in a way. They think wealth is a gift from God to the worthy, so they value pedigree and luck-based 'merit'. They don't think that just anyone can get a degree and be good at something, they believe they need that special something from god to go with it.
Remember, higher education is only elitist because they put a price tag on it. Education is a good thing and everyone deserves it.
Luckily the capitalists have managed to double dip on this one - take hundreds of thousands in loan payments from someone for their education, and they still end up as a desperate worker :porky-happy:
we need to occupy washington dc until they cancel our loans, hell maybe they will give us healthcare too