Exactly correct. But valuing education is now as politicized as hurricane forecasts. This is because education level is a major factor in voting patterns. So c

Exactly correct. But valuing education is now as politicized as hurricane forecasts. This is because education level is a major factor in voting patterns. So conservative pundits have made open war on it, to the nations serious detriment. They could instead work to lower the price of education but that is absolutely not the agenda for the same reasons. It's not entirely unprecedented, universities have been called communist incubators for decades. What is new is the shift in portrayal from communist to being a bad investment (but with no intention of fixing that). Also new is the willingness to cast off the nations future for political gain which previous conservatives apparently were not willing to do. There are similar patterns for climate change, guns and renewable energy.