Why Liberals Are More Intelligent Than Conservatives

"Hiding your taxes" is a "Right wing term" Shown by Mitt pushing the fact, Why Liberals Are More Intelligent. They will always get you in the end so don't do it. But the Right wingers do over & over!

They have been addicted to ad hoc manipulative strategies since Alexander Hamilton.

The opportunity has never been greater for us, the actual Republicans (as Jefferson, Madison, & al., applied the term to themselves, i.e., standing for the Public, the common man, against the privileged) to clarify this chronic fraud response, reflex fraud, automatic fraud, that they have in their DNA, which opportunity we owe to the web, #1, and to Obama's outstanding grasp of the elements of communication — also because of this young generation coming up, that may just have the stuff to equal or surpass my hippie generation for independence of mind.

We must do all we can at every turn to nurture this new crop of "Republicans" in their struggle against the "Federalists".

Oh, and, I found the switches! You have to mouse over to get them to appear — duh!

I have compassion on those monks — they were facing the Black Death, that decimated Europe. I think their response is reasonable, under the circumstances.

So also

"Ring around Rosie
Pockets full of posies
Ashes, ashes
All fall down."

Not a waste of time! If you just sit there & don't vote...
Put it this way "Don't argue with an idiot; people watching may not be able to tell the difference." Not true! Idiots voted in Bush, the guy with the DUI, an drunk etc.
So if you just sit there & say nothing they will come walking in
like what happened with Bush!

Mere political affiliation is not grounds for measuring I.Q?
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
Albert Einstein.

Low taxes, low taxes... You get the point.
If you just stay there in that group that does that I would question your IQ!

I view politics as being a cesspool, where greedy humans wallow and grunt. It should be stripped of corporate $, reduced to a utilitarian minimum.

Agree with your proposition that adherence to a political affiliation reveals a shallow mind, although to me it's not a scientific means of measuring I.Q.

Here's how Thomas Jefferson "termed it":

The Basic Differences Between Parties

"Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties:

1. Those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw all powers from them into the hands of the higher classes.

2. Those who identify themselves with the people, have confidence in them, cherish and consider them as the most honest and safe, although not the most wise depositary of the public interests.

In every country these two parties exist, and in every one where they are free to think, speak, and write, they will declare themselves. Call them, therefore, Liberals and Serviles, Jacobins and Ultras, Whigs and Tories, Republicans and Federalists, Aristocrats and Democrats, or by whatever name you please, they are the same parties still and pursue the same object. The last one of Aristocrats and Democrats is the true one expressing the essence of all."

— Letter to Samuel Kercheval, 1816.

I see that you've hit upon
the limited applications of this study
to anything--or the conclusion that
"conservatives are less intelligent"
than liberals based on composite
scores of teenage kids--who were
all within a few IQ points of each other.

Refreshing to read your candor!
Thanks.

THANK YOU! More eloquently than I put it. I must admit I resorted to name calling..haha..thank you for being more level headed than myself.

their parent stole from our parents

I agree.

Well said!

Absolutely fantastic.

And a good point of view it is !

Thanks!

Example 1: "They're SMART than Conservatives."

Example 2: Etymology; Liberal - http://www.babeled.com/2008/10/30/word-power-liberal/
Etymology; Conservative - http://www.babeled.com/2008/10/23/word-power-conservative/

Failed! You are sure making it hard to substantiate the assertion made in this article.

LOL!!!

Conservative are SMALL minded individuals with Little to offer intellectual discourse. Your comment, however, has no shortness of wit. I really liked reading it :)

Darma and Greg

It gets worse than that. The variable "conservative" in such studies is subject to arbitrary definitions. Some of these studies were done in Europe, and the concept of conservative is entirely different, for example. And there are social conservatives, fiscal conservatives, etc.

But but! Look at my graph! It has numbers!

I love how the blog is "Scientific FUNDAMENTALIST"

LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

That's some science! comparing adolescent intelligence (A JOKE) and a later irrelevant political choice.

Don't know if I'd have used the word "asinine" but your point is well taken. I feel the findings are valid but with such a narrow range of IQ's around "normal" (whatever the hell that is... :) ) conclusions might be a little strained.
My greater concern is the last couple of paragraphs that offer conclusions only tangential to the study itself and hardly explained at all.

Interesting. Does this mean that you will now accept that all those Progressives who speak against you here are not die-hard socialists and closet-communists?

Ha!! Fair point, Buddah. But at least it doesn't employ the righty tactics of displaying the result logarithmically, or doctoring the axes to emphasize the visual impact to those who don't do numbers very well. :)

That almost makes it worse... I should do a study showing the correlation between small genitals and those who make ridiculous correlations... That's almost too much data to log...

Perhaps not. I think we can handle that one intuitively.

Probably a little harsh, true. I'm just tired of seeing postings like this that serve only ONE purpose...to make one feel superior and ridicule those who think differently than oneself.

No argument from me, my friend. ^

How did you get Up Voted and I got Down Voted even though we were agreeing? Hahaha...so much for that lauded "Liberal Intelligence."

Pride goeth before a fall. And the people who are absolutely convinced that THEY are the smartest ... Well they are the most ignorant of all. To be clear, not the dumbest. The most ignorant.

A sure sign of intelligence is when one weighs the merits of an issue before choosing a side or refraining to do so. Libertarians don't do that. Instead, they apply their prefabricated ideology to everything that comes up and it's finished. It's a very handy shortcut around the need to work the brain, but the brain, like any other part of the body, needs to be worked or it will atrophy.

Yes JohnA, "OK". That simple 2 letter response is actually quite a foundation. Now perhaps we may move forward and reason with each other. Ideas are quite a bit of fun and very constructive when the personal animosities are removed ...

Have a great weekend!

Spot on... have you ever noticed how often libertarians will tell you that you need to read some huge volume of their senseless drivel whenever they start to lose a discussion?

As if the problem is YOU and that YOU just don't know enough!!

Please tell me I'm not the only one who has experienced this...

You are CERTAINLY not the only one who has experienced that!!!!!!

This illustrates my point exactly. What you just said is an echo of what pretty much every (read many) libertarian I have met has said when confronted with the point I just made.

You aren't .

Ha!! Perhaps you missed a good career in diplomacy.

They are possibly the least smart of all, their policies, were they applied, would lead to a fairly rapid extinction of the human race.

So, to sum up your thesis, you're smarter than us because you do the exact same thing that we do.

\Brilliant!!!\

Nah. I can't can't keep it up in person. Sad really ...

Who are you fooling other than yourself?

Yet, I believe someone is being fooled by someone or something...

Yeah, while many of them are languishing in the independent middle.

Sooner or later everyone realizes they want more. It takes a few valuable ideas to win a championship, to celebrate a day off, to make a better beer. People are going to come around to better thinking. It just takes patience.

Amen.

As soon as those "libertarians" stop sabotaging all efforts to do so, I think it should work!

I would argue (at least from how much they say it) that conservative care about their 'family' instead of other people's families. Which evolutionarily is what most animals do, including humans, but caring about others you don't know may be the next evolutionary step in intelligence. When you help other people's families that may or may not give their genes the edge over yours in the long run though. Might explain why liberals always trying to screw themselves over too. lol

It's all over-generalizations though.

Agree, it's the "philosophy" of "I got mine, fuck you!" and the poor pathetic wannabees who believe oh just any ol day now they too will be somehow "spiritually elevated" to the status of their 1%er masters that they Uncle Tom bow and scrape at the feet of.

That's just bullshit. Every freedom you enjoy is the result of of Constitutional governance that ALL of us speak to preserve. Yet you support entirely unfettered free market oligarchy that has demonstrated repeatedly that it could not care less about you, your freedom, your wealth, or your health. Astonishing.

What you suggest is evolutionary between species as part of the survival instinct of individuals. Are you saying that with intelligence man now justifiably pursues the survival instinct within the species, and this is evolutionary?

Caring about the whole tribe means protesting and changing the government, as a tribe. Please see the Occupy movement for an example of this in action.

When your free market clamps down on you what do you do then? Stop buying their food? Or their water? That's what you're proposing, you know. When they own it all, what are you?

"When they own it all.." and THAT is the very heart of what is wrong with Capitalism! The very structure of "Free Market" Capitalism allows for such a small percentage of the population to LITERALLY own EVERYTHING. That is an inherent flaw.

The Constitution according to who? You're interpretation of the Constitution, or Scalia's, the guy who just admitted to corrupting a personal agenda as well as bias to the Supreme Court?

You have totally confused the federal government with the corporate right's world domination ideology.

By design, John, yes. The federal government is designed to be the alter ego, persona and expression of the People and their will. The corporate right's idelology is designed to suppress and divert the People's ego, persona and will.

Short answer: liberals care more about the whole tribe meaning all Americans, and with conservatives it's all about me me me me me me me. And liberals, we send our sons and daughters to fight in your wars so that you can live in that rich lifestyle you have. And you conservatives don't want to give one damn penny in taxes for our sons and daughters to have the proper equipment they need to fight in your wars. Greedy people conservatives are, using the money they stole from the taxpayers. You didn't enter office rich, you leave rich. You said in your comment caring about the whole tribe doesn't mean giving up all your freedom to the federal government, well it's okay when the conservatives are the ones in office, it's okay to send our sons and daughters to fight in the unjustified wars you start, and if conservatives feel that way about it stop sending our kids to fight in your wars, start sending your own children to fight them, but you won't do that. Greedy conservatives like Dick Cheney, for instance, the heart he received should have gone to a younger person, incidentally it was money that put him ahead of everyone in line. You also add in your comment liberals don't care about the tribe they just want control over it, not true, conservatives are the ones who want control and to enslave all Americans. Wasn't George Bush the one that passed the "Patriot Act", authorizing warrantless wire taps, rendition to other countries, waterboarding and the suspension of Habeas Corpus, letting them throw Americans in prison without charging them. The republicans have no trouble trashing the constitution, which you swear to defend when you take office You guys say that all the time. "Conquer and destroy", isn't that what Scott Walker said. Liberals do all the work most of the crying, most of the dying, paying most bills and deserve much better. Send your sons and daughters to the wars you start.

I so agree with your last phrase, which is why I think the only positive change we'll ever likely see is that which we demand, not request.