I don’t think voting patterns on the national scale have anything to do with intelligence or even self interest. they’re mostly identity politics.
politicians have discovered they can plunder all they like as long as they sound like “US”.
I agree. Let’s prove them wrong because they sure don’t sound like us anymore.
Anyway, I thought this thread was about math and all I have done is try to illustrate the point. I don’t know why scientists have to make everything they do sound like the most complicated problem in the universe. It isn’t. It is logic and common sense. I don’t need a long string of numbers to tell me what I already know intuitively. But I guess some people don’t find that “intellectual” enough.
Used to drive my math profs crazy because I could answer the questions and solve the problems in my head but couldn’t stretch it out on a whole sheet of paper. I am dyslexic and cannot deal well with numbers, so I turn them into pictures.