The Benefits of a University Education?

In addition to debt and unemployment we can also add political foolishness:

The federal NDP is seeing a surge among university-educated voters – jumping over ten points in just one week, according to polling data from EKOS.

The breakdown of a national poll shows the NDP leading at 36.8 per cent of support among university-educated voters, up from 25.9 per cent just a week earlier. The Conservatives are trailing behind at 26.1 per cent and likewise the Liberals at 25.8 per cent.

As the article goes onto note holders of bachelors have historically leaned Liberal. The pollster's explanation for the aversion graduates have for the Tories is neatly smug:

“The government works on an anti-intellectual populist front,” he said.

“The environment is not seen as particularly important, it’s not clear they are on the same side as climate change, they shut down the long-form census, and as well is the tendency to parody the intellectual class as latte-sipping feeble people who don’t know what they are doing,” said Graves.

Well there is that tendency. 

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[TheTooner]

Yes, there is that tendency. But, "parody"?