Political Views

I am going to start with education as I think it is the easiest to explain. In my opinion there are two different types, overall education(primary, middle, high school, collage) and political education (news, parents, and friends). In the first type as people get more educated they are more likely to think through decisions and make more, educated responses. The other type of education I believe is more prominent being taught about the issues more specifically and your base education determines how you diversify and question sources to come up with your own opinion but for the most part if you listen to a republican media and have republican parents you develop republican ideals and same is true for democratic sources.
Another big thing that can affect political beliefs is location. This ties into political education as if you live in a certain place there are different issues that affect you and the area around you for example people who live in an area where farming is important you are more likely to support farm subsidies and people who live in a poorer neighborhood or own a restaurant would be against this rise is food cost.
On the point of if government should provide jobs there is a similar answer for both of these subjects. A person who lives in an area without a lot of job opportunities they might be more in favor of the government giving them one. While if it is easy for someone to find a job they might think finding jobs for people is a waste of time. The same is true for education. If someone is more highly educated they can find a job more easily and might think it is a waste of time for the government and a highschool dropout might have a hard time finding a place that will hire him.

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