Jasmine Crockett Calls GOP Voters 'Less Educated,' Says They 'Don't Want To Read': 'These Are Just the Facts'

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: MEDIAite

Feb 21st, 2025, 1:37 pm


Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) argued that “less educated folks” who “don’t want to read and enlighten themselves on facts” typically vote Republican on Friday. Crockett joined The Breakfast Club radio show on Friday and, while discussing President Donald Trump and his supporters, claimed that Democrats go into too much “detail” for some voters.

The congresswoman said:

This isn’t me trying to throw shade. These are just the facts. When you look at who’s voting for who, the less educated folk — and when I say educated, I’m not even talking about formal education, I’m talking about people that literally don’t want to read and enlighten themselves on facts. Those are the people that typically vote for the Republicans, and it’s one of the reasons that we have to stop writing in theses as Democrats. Like, we want to give you every single little detail that we can find so that you can have all the information. But the reality is that the average person that is going out there and voting, they’re not paying attention to that.

Crockett also Democrats have underestimated how “selfish” voters are, partially chalking up Trump’s win to racism.

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[no_hypocrisy]

1. I seem to remember that actress Sharon Stone more or less said the same thing.

[Ninga]

2. Rep Crockett nails it once again. We have nothing to lose at this point. So tell it like it is!

[azureblue]

10. that's why the MAGAs use the word Woke

It's the same 6th grade taunt used by the C and under students to attack the smarter students. Used to be "book worm". "Nerd". etc..

[Magoo48]

24. Easy now. Many of my C and under students were as smart as any of my A students.

Beware too broad a brush. A large number of our students have learning styles and particular abilities which lie beyond the parameters of traditional teaching methods, curriculums, and techniques.
Also many of our students have socioeconomic and cultural barriers to hurdle. Sometimes emotional and physical survival takes precedent over all else. And, for what it’s worth, I myself was a C and under student. I’ve been a liberal lefty all of my life. The older I get the lefter I lean.

[Karasu]

3. She's 100% correct. The single-most reliable indicator of political affiliation in this country isn't age or race.

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It's education.

[paleotn]

14. Absolutely. That's unequivocal.

[Cirsium]

20. That is new

College graduates voting for Democratic candidates is new, over the last decade or so. The Democratic party has been steadily losing blue collar support to the Republicans. That is no accident. Here is Schumer back in 2016:

“For every blue-collar Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we will pick up two moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia, and you can repeat that in Ohio and Illinois and Wisconsin.”

The Republican party used to be that of the college-educated party, but it reached its peak in 2008, shifting to more blue-collar voters. In 2008, the Democratic Party garnered 31.5% of the educated voters but rose to 52% in 2020 in unprecedented numbers.

https://www.utdailybeacon.com/campus_news/academics/shifting-voting-blocks-how-historically-democratic-republican-communities-have-shifted-political-identities/article_5425b724-8bec-11ef-a9e6-5f507f37bdfe.html

The single-most reliable indicator of political affiliation in this country is race, followed by gender, if we go by the numbers, that is. 55% of college graduates voted for Harris. Only 49% of college educated men voted for Harris, and 48% of white college educated men voted for Harris. 87% of Black women voted for Harris.

[slightlv]

33. IMNSHO, the worst thing we did was to go out for the

"moderate republicans." First, there really is no such thing; they're all for cultural norms of their own choosing. Not a single one of them know how to "live and let live." I'd really like to sic Billy Jack on all of them!

Second, all those republicans that came into the party all just drove the party to a non-existent "center" they all talked about incessantly. Meanwhile, studies have shown for years that when labels are done away with, the American people, as a whole, prefer progressive agendas. Taking in all these "moderate republicans" cost the Democratic party a lot of their dyed-in-the-wool democrats who were raised on FDR's policies, in favor of the "New Democrats" (re: "corporate democrats" who came off sounding little more than republican-lite politicians.) I love Bill Clinton, foibles and all... but only a democrat could have cut assistance to the poor and get away with it. And that's not the only bow down to the corporate "democrats&quot

I've voted Democratic in every election, city... county... Federal. And I always will. But I think, because of that, it entitles me to speak of what I think was wrong and how it got us to this place today.

[Cirsium]

37. Excellent post

People talk about elections as though they were talking about shopping - "buy this product, and your life will be changed!" But election results are an effect of social, political and economic change, not a cause. They reflect the ongoing national political discussion. When that discussion is all about red versus blue there can be no serious political discussion. All we have then is competing marketing strategies.

[Bettie]

38. THIS all day

and twice on Sunday.

Now the people who are called "Far Left" are actually not as far to the left as they seem compared to most other civilized countries....like, wanting everyone to have health CARE not just some corporation where you might get care or not, depending on the algorithm of the AI they use to decide who lives and who dies. That's one example.

[markodochartaigh]

54. And due to the

Overton Window shifting reich-ward, today's "moderate Republican" is 1960's right wing Republican.

[whathehell]

26. Actually, there are many educated wealthy people

who vote Republican as well.

[Karasu]

31. True. Vested self-interest will do that.

[whathehell]

42. Yes..

that was my thought as well.

[Shipwack]

48. Very true.

I like to say that my brother is the first one in our family to make enough money to vote Republican...

[erronis]

30. And there are many of us who have no degree, no HS diploma who are intelligent and vote for Democrats

Looking at the "highest degree you have attained" doesn't catch a lot of us who have been successful enough and intelligent enough to know when someone is trying to con us. (repuglicons, plutocrats, and putin/etc.)

[Karasu]

32. Certainly. There are always, ALWAYS exceptions. Statistically, though, that group is much more likely to be

Republican.

[JustAnotherGen]

35. I take educated to mean more than a degree

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My favorite person to discuss string theory with is a 90 year old woman from down the street - who graduated High school in Brooklyn 70 years ago. Her house is filled with books - we trade my New Yorker for her Mother Jones.



Things Marianne doesn't say:

I seen it on fox.
I read it on Instagram.
Did you see the Kardashians?

[Historic NY]

53. So many don't have even the basic knowledge of how government works

4-5th grade basic civics. You know who does? Immigrants, yes. They learn it to achieve US citizenship.

https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/questions-and-answers/100q.pdf]

[SunSeeker]

4. Truth. It's long past time to stop coddling these idiots. nt

[SamKnause]

5. Truth.

[Aristus]

6. It's about damned time.

I'm so sick of hearing politicians, especially Democrats, say things like "The American people are smart. They don't need to be told how to vote."

It's nice to hear someone admit that, by and large, the American people are a bunch of sub-moronic, shovel-brained idiots who can barely feed and dress themselves. Which is how we get people in office like Trump, Perjury Traitor Gangrene, The Colorado Blow-Up Doll, Ted Cruz (sorry; I couldn't think of a snarky name for him; 'Ted Cruz' just says it all...) and the rest of the tractor-pull and WWF crowd.

[azureblue]

11. except let Fox tell them how to vote

funny how that works...

[mwb970]

7. All of the smart people I know hate trump with a passion.

The dumb ones (all two of them) both love trump.

THAT is the "Gulf of America".

[Wonder Why]

8. They are not inintelligent and uneducated (well some of them are not) but they just want to

close their eyes so they don't see the horror to others or they don't care about anyone but themselves.

During Helene, I had a couple of neighbors who didn't want any help and wouldn't lift a finger to help anyone else. One is a well educated semi-retired Certified Financial Advisor. I wouldn't trust him with a nickel of my money!

They just don't care.

[Comrade Citizen]

9. Jasmine Crockett is a big deal

She represents downtown Dallas and South Dallas, the largest city in the 4th largest metro area in the US.
She gained gritty experience fighting against the insane lunatic white supremacist rethugs in our state legislature.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

12. This is fine. She was never going to be the Dem prez candidate anyway.

Insulting half the electorate is now a guarantee that she's not going to be president. She may still be safe in her congressional district.

She might as well call them a "basket of deplorables".

Her insults, while mostly true, are still insulting and will not be forgotten by MATAts

[BumRushDaShow]

13. They ARE a basketful of deplorables

Question: Why doesn't the media ask why THEY won't "reach out" to our side?

(Answer: Because that is not how their game is played)

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

17. They don't reach out because they are in the majority.

And when they are in the minority, they can count on support from a few wayward Dems.

But the insults are not helpful, they just harden the resolve of those idiots.

[BumRushDaShow]

21. It is a "birds of a feather, flock together" thing

There is a subset of people who have what I consider "personality disorders" who lack any type of empathy, and often are undegoing some serious personal travails, without any outlet to resolve them, so they are susceptible to "blaming someone else". And thanks to technology, they have been able to find each other much more rapidly than any time in the historical past. This then magnifies the negativity that they project onto others.

And after the victims of that vitriol have had enough of being the recipients of that kind of ill will, and start to fight back, they are suddenly told "NO! Don't fight back".

Well not this time.

And I would disagree that they are "in the majority". I think you STILL have a good chunk of the populace who literally tune out "politics" and try to go on and live their lives however they can... literally yawning every time a "politician" does their once or twice a year "appearance" (in person, on airwaves) at election time, and then disappear.

[JustAnotherGen]

39. Definitely not

Half the electorate.

I guarantee - Andy Biggs and Ted Cruz NEVER worry about alienating voters - who vote Democratic.

[BumRushDaShow]

40. They actually enjoy talking and acting like arrogant bullies

and wear it as their "badge of honor".

It's just like this guy (from "Back to the Future" and... ahem... in the now) -

[paleotn]

16. Deplorables? They're vastly worse.

And that's not an insult. It's the truth. If that bothers you, then that's on you, not her.

[DinahMoeHum]

27. Yep, they're not deplorables, they're IRREDEEMABLES

Fuck 'em. Let them find out the hard way.

[JustAnotherGen]

36. Good - I'll never forget being called

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A libtard, or being on the plantation, "the blacks".

What you need to understand- There are people right here at DU that the Republicans and MagaPublicans have insulted since the day we were born.

We're all on welfare. We all are " fast" and have babies out of wedlock.


Think - why do Dems get 92% of Black women - who are the most highly educated demographic?

Because Republicans can NEVER get us by looking down their noses at us, thinking they are better than us, not listening to us.

After the smack in the face of every Black woman in America in November?

Good. I hate those people and I WANT them to hurt. I want them angry.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

52. Agree. I also want them angry and hurt. But, ...

... but I don't want them to be so angry that they get off their butts and vote.

[Evolve Dammit]

15. "I love the uneducated." Orange Julius circa 2015

[BattleRow]

19. And to paraphrase another Republican, Abraham Lincolnn

"The Lord must have loved uneducated folk,because he made so many of them".

The actual quote was,

"The Lord must have loved poor folks,because he made so many of them "

[Evolve Dammit]

25. Same as then, only accelerated.

[love_katz]

29. And their churches continue to campaign against any reproductive rights.

They want to ban contraceptives, legislate the death penalty for abortion, attack non-religious education and ban books so they can dumb down their flock, and exhort their hateful flock to breed like fleas and mosquitos. Gotta ensure that money flow from the brainwashed.

[paleotn]

18. Truth! If the truth is painful, tough.

Fuck their feelings.

[Daleuhlmann]

22. Jasmine Crockett Is Right!

The Democrats had better start listening to her! A good many modern Republican voters are, as a whole, indeed less well-educated and more intellectually lazy than most Democratic voters. However, I think more American voters seem, regardless of their party affiliations, less well-read on the issues and less intellectually curious today than those of older generations.

[Marcuse]

23. True dat.

[NoMoreRepugs]

28. The Democratic purity tests and need to include every possible permutation

of the population in every explanation of what they are trying to accomplish makes it impossible to convey their message.

[JustAnotherGen]

34. She's right

[H2O Man]

41. Yes.

She has a wonderful ability to speak the truth in the clearest terms. One of the best communicators I've seen in my long lifetime.

[raging moderate]

44. Well, Trump voters say that Kamala Harris "only speaks gibberish."

This was a revelation to me. Kamala Harris always sounded logical and informative to me. She is highly educated with a doctorate in law and extremely experienced in judicial and government management. These people have trouble understanding abstract words and compound complex sentences. They say that Donald Trump "tells it like it is." Of course, dialect differences also get in the way with many of them.

[hunter]

43. It's not that they are "less educated," it's that they are entirely incurious.

I think their natural curiosity and creativity is beaten out of them at an early age.

My grandma was a voracious reader with an intense curiosity about the natural world even though she hadn't finished high school and was already married and a mother when she was sixteen. She was "less educated" but she was not a fool.

The people who voted for Trump are incurious fuckwits and sociopaths without exception. Trump represents them perfectly as he is both a sociopath and an incurious fuckwit.

[tornado34jh]

45. She struck a nerve all right

They say it was a cheap shot. Many on the right think she is out of touch. You can't handle the truth, MAGAt bastards! I bet these guys if asked couldn't name who the Allied Powers were in WWII or why the War of 1812 occurred, and they say they are "true Americans".

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

46. As much as it bugs them she's right

The MAGA crowd lacks any intellectual curiosity. To learn things, you have to want to learn.

[Scarlet Begalas]

47. She's right.

She's absolutely correct, and I'm quite sure the reich wing is falling all over themselves being "outraged"
about it right now.

[BlueMTexpat]

49. They are the kinder facts.

The fact that they "don''t want to read" or otherwise be informed exposes their sheer laziness, selfishness, and willful ignorance.

[oasis]

50. 100%

[RockRaven]

51. I dunno... Seems like they DO read, they read dumb shit on FB and Xitter

and they gulp down that slop and regurgitate it over and over for each other to gulp down next. It could hardly be worse if none of them had ever read or wrote a single word.

But I have not the slightest rebuttal for the "selfish" assessment, that is right fucking on.

[Hotler]

55. Two statistics swirling around in my mind since the election.

54% of adults have a literacy below a 6th-grade level ......
https://www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/post/literacy-statistics-2024-2025-where-we-are-now

51% of those voting in the last election voted for cruelty and hate over freedom and democracy.
From the vote counters.

[Blue Owl]

56. Sad but true

Social media has dumbed down the collective intellect by glorifying stupidity and ignorance.

How can we make learning and being smart cool again?

[4catsmom]

57. THey will try to make something out of this

to try to shame Ms. Crockett, but I hope she ignores that BS. Keep speaking the truth!

[snot]

58. Right or wrong,

it might have been better not to say so.

We need to more bridges among the working class, not wedges.

[mdbl]

59. IMO it's waaaay to late for that

The country is now an Idiocracy. It can't go any further into stupidsville than that - just different flavors of it.

[snot]

62. How does name-calling help?

[mdbl]

63. Name calling what? The Idiocracy? Just telling it like it is.

There's no convincing the willfully ignorant. If reality smacks em in the face it might cause a realization or two but we'll never return to a common sense society again. Too many stupid podcasts with morons just trying to get clicks for money. Started with Mush Limpballs and culminated into where we are today. Been watching the slow slide into stupidsville for 40 years now.

[mdbl]

60. George Carlin said.....

[creon]

61. True

GOP voters, in the main, vote for GOP automatically.
They do not read about issues very often. And, are not well informed.
That is just the reality of it.