IQ does not automatically compute to competence in running the government or common sense. You could literally put every genius in the US into COngress and they would still have a political bent that could defy all odds of success. Being a genius does not mean that one knows all or can handle the task at hand. Besides, they are usually genius at one particular thing, not necessarily across the board.
Take evolution and global warming for instance. They are said to be geniuses, many of them, but refuse to look outside their political bent to see any facts that don’t give with their own. I’m not real impressed with the geniuses running our government. For all their supposed IQ power, they are running this country into the ground, and yet they can’t understand why it isn’t working? Some geniuses just aren’t all that impressive!
I myself have a very high IQ, but I take more pride in my common sense and the fact I can combine the two for Optimal solutions.
I have met people with supposedly higer IQs than myself and they coudln’t pour piss out of a cowboy boot if the instructions were printed on the heel.
Hell, one couldn’t even hook up a VCR, and she was supposed a psychologist, I wouldn’t trust this idiot with poking around in someone’s mind if they cannot hook up color coded VCR cables....
What did Buckley say - I would rather be governed by the first 100 people in the phone book than by the faculty of Harvard - or words to that effect.