Why Liberals Are More Intelligent Than Conservatives (Kitten Chow, have at it folks)

Psychology Today ^ | 3/22/10 | Satoshi Kanazawa

[MayorKoch]

It is difficult to define a whole school of political ideology precisely, but one may reasonably define liberalism (as opposed to conservatism) in the contemporary United States as the genuine concern for the welfare of genetically unrelated others and the willingness to contribute larger proportions of private resources for the welfare of such others. In the modern political and economic context, this willingness usually translates into paying higher proportions of individual incomes in taxes toward the government and its social welfare programs. Liberals usually support such social welfare programs and higher taxes to finance them, and conservatives usually oppose them.

Defined as such, liberalism is evolutionarily novel. Humans are evolutionarily designed to be altruistic toward their genetic kin, their friends and allies, and members of their deme (a group of intermarrying individuals) or ethnic group. They are not designed to be altruistic toward an indefinite number of complete strangers whom they are not likely ever to meet or interact with. This is largely because our ancestors lived in a small band of 50-150 genetically related individuals, and large cities and nations with thousands and millions of people are themselves evolutionarily novel...

Incidentally, this finding substantiates one of the persistent complaints among conservatives. Conservatives often complain that liberals control the media or the show business or the academia or some other social institutions. The Hypothesis explains why conservatives are correct in their complaints. Liberals do control the media, or the show business, or the academia, among other institutions, because, apart from a few areas in life (such as business) where countervailing circumstances may prevail, liberals control all institutions. They control the institutions because liberals are on average more intelligent than conservatives and thus they are more likely to attain the highest status in any area of (evolutionarily novel) modern life.

[JRandomFreeper]

In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "If you don't work you die."

And he's wrong. That bit was by Rudyard Kipling in 1919. I understand he stole if from a sermon by Isaac Barrow from back in the 1600s, who probably stole it from the Bible.

That the left doesn't have this basic understanding of liberalism proves that socialism is a lie.

Not very smart of the liberals.

/johnny

[a fool in paradise]

Witch wun uv them evul Koch Bruthers iz u???

[MNDude]

If only all our cities could be governed by these wise intellects, we could have more cities like Detroit.

[M Kehoe]

That was 30 seconds of my life I'll never get back.

Oh, btw, welcome to FR. Enjoy your stay...

5.56mm

[mykroar]

but one may reasonably define liberalism (as opposed to conservatism) in the contemporary United States as the genuine concern for the welfare of genetically unrelated others and the willingness to contribute larger proportions of private resources for the welfare of such others.

Since every study I've ever seen shows that conservatives give considerable more that libtards, I don't really need to read past the first sentence of this tripe.

[boycott]

I read a little bit about this Satoshi Kanazawa. From his Wiki page .....

“In response to ongoing controversy over views such as that African countries suffer chronic poverty and illness because their people have lower IQs and that black women are “objectively less attractive” than other races, he was dismissed from writing for Psychology Today. His current employer – the London School of Economics – ........ “

[Da Coyote]

Not even worth a reply.

Psycholocy Today...the Rolling Stone of mags semi close to real medicine.

[a fool in paradise]

If I recall properly, National Lampoon did a parody once titled ‘Psychology Ptooey’.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

-— the genuine concern for the welfare of genetically unrelated others and the willingness to contribute larger proportions of private resources for the welfare of such others.-—

Studies show that conservative/religious Americans give much more money to charity than liberal/areligiojs Americans.

-—In the modern political and economic context, this willingness usually translates into paying higher proportions of individual incomes in taxes toward the government and its social welfare programs.-—

Oh, he means using OTHER people’s money. Yes, liberals are always willing to give the shirt off your back to help others.

[reasonisfaith]

One reason liberals are kind of stupid is they don’t have the depth of insight to question their own beliefs. This mental deficit is a direct result of starting with the premise that liberals are smarter than conservatives. In general conservatives don’t do this, so they don’t have the same problem.

[ScottinVA]

the willingness to contribute larger proportions of private resources for the welfare of such others.

The author seems to be rather confused on the meaning of "private resources." Liberals term "private resources" as that which governments can forcibly extract from the holdings of citizens. Those are known as "confiscated," not "private."

Meanwhile, Conservatives kick the snot out of liberals when it comes to giving of their private resources.

http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2014/10/17/Who-s-More-Generous-Liberals-or-Conservatives

Interesting your first posting.. on your first day at FR.. is this. What's your next act?

[outofsalt]

Liberals are Darwinist’s unless it comes to buying votes with other peoples money. They use their vote buying schemes to secure power to enrich themselves.

[Sasparilla]

“Defined as such, liberalism is evolutionarily novel. Humans are evolutionarily designed to be altruistic toward their genetic kin, their friends and allies, and members of their deme...”

And, the above is accomplished by spending other people’s money.

[Texas Eagle]

Yeah, yeah. War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Liberals are smarter than Conservatives.

We've heard it all before.

[TheOldLady]

I must agree!

Liberals are usually heartbroken about all the injustice going on around here, so they dip their stinking, sticky little fingers
into MY DAMN POCKETS to support morons who have no idea how to WORK FOR THEIR OWN DAMN MONEY.

Liberals, dumb as sticks, think that it's perfectly okay to steal my money and anyone else's for that matter, but one thing they
NEVER do is DIP INTO THEIR OWN POCKETS in order to make the world right. NO! their property is their own, but
mine is not mine to keep.

Liberals are stupid, hypocritical, controlling, evil little monsters who destroy lives and freedom. They keep their followers
enslaved to their ideology by showering largesse upon them until they are so indoctrinated that they don't realize they and
their culture are being slowly eroded away and destroyed.

MayorKoch, IBTZ. You are a liberal moron. I cannot believe that you came on this site, which is ultra Conservative, in
order to post your hazy-brained drivel, and you expect to be lauded and appreciated for this stupid fantasy that has NEVER
succeeded anywhere in the entire world.

Here's a little something that you may want to STUDY AND REMEMBER.

Posted on Sun Nov 14 2010 17:13:16 GMT-0800 (PST) by Jim Robinson

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[a fool in paradise]

Liberals do control the media, or the show business, or the academia, among other institutions, because, apart from a few areas in life (such as business) where countervailing circumstances may prevail, liberals control all institutions. They control the institutions because liberals are on average more intelligent than conservatives and thus they are more likely to attain the highest status in any area of (evolutionarily novel) modern life.

There's no blacklist, naw....

How about we rewrite this for the socialist justice warriors?

Men do control the media, or the show business, or the academia, among other institutions, because, apart from a few areas in life (such as business) where countervailing circumstances may prevail, men control all institutions. They control the institutions because men are on average more intelligent than women and thus they are more likely to attain the highest status in any area of (evolutionarily novel) modern life.

And it's a big Red lie to say that corporations/business is "conservative". Too many faggots on the board of directors these days. There is plenty of corporate liberalism. Plenty of Million Dollar Marxists (and even Billion Dollar Marxists). Why would you believe it when Bill Gates complains that YOU don't pay enough taxes? And it

[TheOldLady]

Thank you for the ping, dear houeto!

[fwdude]

Conservatives give far more to charities than liberals.

I know this by direct knowledge. Doing tax returns for each type is very revealing.

Liberals I've dealt with generally have ZERO to report for charitable contributions.

[smokingfrog]

Conservatives are charitable with their own money.

Liberals prefer to be charitable with other people’s money.

[fwdude]

Love your graphic. That’s about what I did.