[SeekAndFind]

Two year old article, but still useful to show how desperate the MSM is to prove how smart they are.

[MNJohnnie]

No because Liberals base their world view on emotions. That is by definition stupid.

[A_Former_Democrat]

The fact that anyone would actually believe in liberalism is proof enough

[Huskrrrr]

Just spoke to a friend of mine, from church, who has a daughter at Stanford. She describes her fellow students as “The most intelligent people I know who haven’t got a clue.”

[GraceG]

How come no one has done a study comparing common sense vs. book smarts in the two parties. I would surmise there is a lot more common sense in the Conservative side where a lot of the head inthe clouds thinkers are liberals who have what sound like great ideas, but are sorely lacking in their execution.

[Proudcongal]

If liberals are so smart why are they so useless to society, why do they tend to be less successful than Republicans and require welfare? Just the fact that they embrace socialism is evidence of how utterly stupid they are.

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

Just ask them who is going to pay off the last 4 years $6 Trillion Dollars they made disappear?

Ask them to Show you what we actually Bought with all that money.

[Sgt_Schultze]

And yet it is liberals who complain that their voters are too stupid to know how to obtain legitimate photo identification. They also went to court in Florida claiming their voters were too stupid to be able to use a "butterfly ballot" designed by a democrat election official.

With that many admittedly stupid members, the intelligence of the few "smart" liberals must really be high to be able to offset the idiocy of the rank-and-file.

[Hodar]

Easy to disprove this study.

A person continually uses a philosophy that leads to promoting the socially inept, while punishing the workers and those who invest their wealth to create jobs. The result historically, and universally has been war, death, destruction, drops in production, health, employment, economic growth and increases in human misery - across every time period, and every region on earth.

Yet, this same person persists in pursuing this same failed philosophy.

Is this person smart, or stupid?

[I still care]

Liberals buy into the world’s values. One of the first things they are taught is, get a college education, and go into a field and get hired, maybe by the government.

So they do.

But conservative kids tend to say, “No, I want to make my own way,” develop their own way of thinking, and often go into their own business. They MAY go into college, but they don’t think they are doomed if they don’t. They often go later, when they see the practical uses for it, or because they want to challenge themselves in some way. Not reflexively because that’s what sheep do.

Once they are gotten there at a young age, the liberal intelligentsia sets to the brainwashing in earnest. Conservative kids laugh their tails off at the nonsense they hear from their elitist friends, and get down to work building a life of their OWN.

Liberal interpretation. College = smart. Non-college= not smart.

[B.O. Plenty]

Are Liberals Smarter Than Conservatives?

...they are joshing us, right?

...they are kidding, right....right??

[chesley]

I believe the part about liberals being ugly. Their souls seep out through their skin.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Oh how I remember the 1960s arrogant psycho punks. Loved by the MSM and praised as the most intelligent generation ever.

Their Demobrat Party kidnapped the traditional, patriotic Democratic Party beginning in the 1970s. Liberal leaders fled the Party to be independent or Republicans.

I like to quote something from Lincoln.. updated to address these aged 1960s Marxist-Alinsky campus psycho spoiled brats and their bratty ideological issue who feeeeeeel that they are the anointed ones (as defined by Thomas Sowell).

We initiated a policy to tolerate the Marxist-Alinsky radicals and let them rant; not only has it not ceased but was constantly augmented by decades of infiltration and indoctrination. We now have two Americas. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half statist and half free; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.

[MrB]

That quote was actually from Schaefer, but he referenced Gibbons.

[MrB]

oops, wrong thread...

for this thread, my comment was going to be -

sure, they’re smarter, just ask ‘em!

[PuzzledInTX]

including weird ideas about, say, helping genetically unrelated strangers (liberalism, as Kanazawa defines it)

I am so sick of the idea that conservatives do not want to help genetically unrelated strangers (stupid definition, but let's go with that for this discussion). This is the biggest lie of all! Conservatives have proven ideas on what helping is (teach a man to fish vs give a man a fish) versus failed experiments with socialism/ communism. People who learn from their mistakes are intelligent in my book. Those who continue trying to do the same failed thing to get a different result are insane (by definition).

[JaguarXKE]

He argues that smarter people are more willing to espouse "evolutionarily novel" values — that is, values that did not exist in our ancestral environment, including weird ideas about, say, helping genetically unrelated strangers"

Then one must wonder why studies have shown time and again that conservatives are more giving and generous than liberals.

[ctdonath2]

“Some ideas are so preposterous only an intellectual could believe them.”
- Orwell

[Talisker]

Study: Are Liberals Smarter Than Conservatives?

Followed by studies titled:

Liberals Nicer Than Conservatives

Liberals More Popular Than Conservatives

Liberals Friendlier Than Conservatives

Soccer Moms wait wide-eyed for such infinitely redefinable wordcrap. Do have ANY idea how many decaf lattes Starbuck sells to these drooling idiots while they wrap their pinheads around these programming memes... er, cuttingly analytical insights?

[Sherman Logan]

The Add Health study shows that the mean IQ of adolescents who identify themselves as "very liberal" is 106, compared with a mean IQ of 95 for those calling themselves "very conservative." The Add Health study is huge — more than 20,000 kids — and this difference is highly statistically significant.

An IQ difference of (supposedly) 11 points between conservatives and liberals is "highly statistically significant."

An IQ difference of (supposedly) 15 to 18 points between blacks and whites is totally meaningless.

Although since most blacks are liberals this implies that the difference between white conservatives and liberals is even greater.

[Stosh]

Too many people confuse “intellectually evaluated” with “intellectually fashionable”.

Most liberals I know are reasonably conservative about things they know something about in detail (and that’s usually not political issues), but they espouse knee-jerk liberal attitudes on just about everything else because that’s what they think makes them look like smart people, or at least keeps them from looking like a bunch of yahoos.

The perfect example is global warming/climate change. No liberal I’ve ever questioned thoroughly knows a damn thing about the controversy at any level of scientific detail, but they all know they have to say that they’re opposed to CO2 emissions because that’s the “scientific consensus”.