Trump is definitely intellectually conflicted. John Galt would never have been elected in this environment. Trump is less socialist than Obama, sanders, and Hillary and look at the vitriol he is getting from Hillary supporters. They hate him and are trying to stop him at every turn. That in itself tells me he is trying to do good things. He can only slow things down a bit, not stop or even reverse it very much. The establishment IS the socialist swamp. Trump panders too much to them as it is. The whole repeal and replace thing with Obamacare was going to fail. It should have been REPEAL only and never replace. We will wind up with Medicaid for everyone but not until the dems take over again

Pretty much. The establishment has lost my trust in their pursuit of hidden agendas. That control almost everything they do. I only have time to analyze in detail to remove the hidden agenda bias on things that affect he directly.

The evidence I see is that the entire educational system from K and through college degrees is highly overloaded with liberal socialists more intent on indoctrination to liberal values than on historical education. YMMV but I have never conversed intimately with anyone who attended the above named colleges. Nice to hear that a few still exist.

What you are saying is that you project your own opinions on someone you do not know because you want to like him based on the fact that you already decided to do that.

The problem with the "Marxist indoctrination" theory is that it fails to explain the Gulch.

More to the point are the people here who verbalize around Pres. Trump's own socialist ideas (national socialist) about bringing back good-paying jobs. His attitude toward women and his behaviors speak deeply about his true nature, and yet, they excuse, justify, and deny.

To me, the touchstone in this discussion is that among these conservatives even the military is not exempt from charges of Marxist indoctrination. This was the propaganda of the far right in the 1950s and 60s when the John Birch Society followed Sen. Joseph McCarthy's accusations of traitors within the military. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army–Mc... )

Your comments fail in the face of facts. See my reply below:
https://www.galtsgulchonline.com/post...

Do you include college education past 1970 at the nation's military academies? George Mason University? Hillsdale College? Your sweeping generality is an expression of emotion that reinforces assumptions you bring to the discussion, but is unsupported by the evidence.

President Trump is not going to slow down socialism because much of what he advocates is socialism, nationalist socialism. He will say that those corporations owe a "fair" tax. He will not say that they did the right thing, the logical thing, the moral thing in shopping for countries with laws favorable to economic freedom.

You have to explain how you got here. By what intellectual path did you arrive in Galt's Gulch? Were you not indoctrinated by liberals and Marxists? See my comments on Catholic education above.
https://www.galtsgulchonline.com/post...

People choose.Your claims that liberals indoctrinate people fails to explain the basic facts of Galt's Gulch.

Is it your assessment that Gen. James Mattis is an indoctrinated liberal because he holds a BA in history? Do you think that he is a sheep? You make some easy assumptions that satisfy your prejudices, but do not stand up to examination. See my comments above https://www.galtsgulchonline.com/post...

So you discount three research samplings of the military by three staff officers, including a four star general because you do not believe any poll from the establishment?

That is an incomplete assessment. See my comments to mccannon01 above https://www.galtsgulchonline.com/post...

Moreover, I have learned many facts and gained valuable insights from my Marxist professors, most especially the truly Marxist who invest a lot of hard work in their research. As von Mises said, in economics, advocates of the free market and socialists often agree on the facts, but they disagree on what the facts mean.

There's a problem with the theory of Marxist indoctrination. Many of the winners in the middle school, high school, and college essay contests on Anthem, The Fountainhead, We the Living, and Atlas Shrugged sponsored by the Ayn Rand Institute come from Catholic schools. No one does indoctrination like the Catholics. And yet... people think for themselves... especially young people.

Waaaa. I wasted all that time in two good engineering schools when I could have made a good living pumping gas into "educated" people's cars and voted for Trump because he is more like me.

I am sure that if I got Trump alone and he was sure I would not spread what he said, he would agree that the swamp is a lot wider and deeper than he thought, and the resistance from the repub party is representative of the huge body of swamp creatures. I wonder if he would have bothered to run if he realized how much vitriol and resistance he would face once he won.

Trump is rediscovering the old adage: "When you're up to your ass in alligators its tough to remember your original intention was to drain the swamp."

I think the terms "educated" and "uneducated" need to be defined for the context in which they are being used. I believe anyone in the Gulch would agree having higher education in specific scientific fields such as engineering, mathematics, neurosurgery, or tactical deployment, et al would certainly be more valued for those in the respective field than anyone uneducated attempting to practice endeavors in those same fields. However, IMHO, if "educated" actually means indoctrinated into left wing extremist (Marxist/PC) ideology, then this "educated" person, regardless of how many college degrees he/she may have accrued in whatever major, has no more to offer a free nation for guidance than someone with no education at all. In fact, again IMHO, I'd much rather the President be elected by the "uneducated" than by the left wing indoctrinated. Some of the crap taking place on college campuses today only underscores my thinking.

I agree that another civil war would be like the last one and a lot of people would die, only to most likely have a new government rise up worse than the one we have. I suspect the current government would just squash any sort of rebellion using the NSA to find all the dissenters and label them terrorists.

Secession would never be allowed to happen, even to one state. Thats what the previous civil war was about and look how that turned out.

As its going now, in 50 years the USA will not be a good place to live any more. It will be filled with entitled people and a powerful government intent on staying in power. Not a great scenario. I am not sure that freedom loving people living today can really stop that at this point. The decline of the USA is deeply rooted in collectivism and religious nonsense, and entitlement and political correctness has taken over to the point that in the colleges are not even allowed to present free market ideas any more without violence erupting.

I just want to re-state what appears to be the common view of this on this site:
1. Formally educated people in the US on average are not as smart as uneducated people because domestic colleges teach propaganda and/or incorrect information. As a result, enlisted people in the US military, on the average, are smarter than the officers and leadership.
2. President Trump is generally doing a good job by reasonable objective measurements.
3. Officers, on the average, can't see how good President Trump is (#2) because their education paradoxically makes them less smart (#1).

If the less educated are more capable at selecting the president, would we be better off if the military leadership also had less education?

"So, the final tally is that President Trump enjoys less support among educated citizens..."

Should say "President Trump enjoys less support among indoctrinated citizens..." given that most college and university instructors are leftists.

A violent rebellion would be a disaster in the current situation. A widespread movement for secession or anti-income tax protest would have to happen first to frame the issue as intolerable evil to a large number of people for any chance of success.

I would go for a revolution at this point. The swamp is just too wide and deep to be drained, and the creatures who inhabit it would rise up and use everything in their power to prevent its draining.

Repatriation would also have to eliminate the penalties for unreported off shore accounts. It will take some really sharp lawyers to get that legislation written so it doesn't bite those people again. Perhaps a blanket presidential pardon would be convincing enough. Government has shown it ignores the spirit of law frequently.
The federal government deserves to be completely overthrown and socialists prosecuted for treasonous actions against the constitution, but such action rarely turns out well.
"You should know that rebellion is always legal in the first person, such as "our rebellion." It is only in the third person - "their rebellion" - that it is illegal."
Ben Franklin in the movie 1776

Absolutely!!! Anyone who can so easily fall for liberal indoctrination has little or no 'critical thinking' ability - and in today's education system, it's MUCH easier to be a good student if you have little or no critical thinking ability. (They give good grades to good students. And it's much easier to be a good student if you don't have the ability to question the validity of what the teacher's saying, or to get so bored that you tune out. They don't line up the kids by IQ and give the high IQ kids the better grades. They give the good grades to the ones most willing to jump through hoops and regurgitate what they've been told.)

I would not place any stock in a college degree earned much past 1970. Education in and of itself comes in many forms but just because an individual has a higher degree does not make the individual more intelligent or better suited for critical thinking. Some of the dumbest people I know are highly educated idiots.

Its a lot simpler than you are thinking. Working people have to deal more with facts of living in the world. So called "educated" people live in the world of made up and complicated ideas about how the world should or might be and not how it is.