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Why Liberals Are More Intelligent Than Conservatives (Kitten Chow, have at it folks)
Psychology Today ^ | 3/22/10 | Satoshi Kanazawa

Posted on 04/07/2015 6:19:47 AM PDT by 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.

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To: MayorKoch

It’s hard to take seriously a report which starts out with the definition that a liberal is somebody who cares about non-family and is willing to pay money to help non-family.

The author of this totally misunderstands the issues at stake.


61 posted on 04/07/2015 6:50:46 AM PDT by butterdezillion (Note to self : put this between arrow keys: img src=""/ g g)
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To: MayorKoch

You liberals are gonna need a lot of articles like this, given the magnitude of your mental performance in 2008 and 2012.


62 posted on 04/07/2015 6:51:35 AM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: ryan71
Today's college youth are touted as being very liberal. But recent studies reveal how absolutely bucket-o'-rocks stupid they really are.

Twice I've gone to eateries recently and gave the college-age kid behind the counter some odd change to get rid of for payment. One had to pull out a ten-key calculator. Another had to call his manager, who was another college-age kid who was also stumped. I laughed out loud.

63 posted on 04/07/2015 6:52:30 AM PDT by fwdude (The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
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To: Old Sarge

I think it’s fair to say that pup has some hyena blood.


64 posted on 04/07/2015 6:54:11 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (WSC: The truth is incontrovertible; malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end...)
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To: BykrBayb; Slings and Arrows
Account is still active. No further posts.

Kitteh's got his tongue.


65 posted on 04/07/2015 6:55:13 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Funny how Hollywood's 'No Nukes' crowd has been silent during Obama's Iranian nuclear negotiations.)
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To: JRandomFreeper

“Not very smart of the liberals.”
Maybe not, but historically, that hasn’t stopped their march towards communism here and abroad. And they are winning here.


66 posted on 04/07/2015 6:55:35 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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To: RoosterRedux

Can we just zot the perp, delete the thread and move on with our lives?


67 posted on 04/07/2015 6:55:38 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Islam is the military wing of the Communist party.)
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To: MayorKoch
Liberals always claim to be more intelligent than conservatives, but always prove themselves to be less than intelligent (for any liberals the underlined is in fact an insult) every time they open their mouth or start typing.
68 posted on 04/07/2015 6:55:50 AM PDT by Durus (You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. Ayn Rand)
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To: MayorKoch

To put it in laymen’s terms Liberal/Progressive is coo coo.


69 posted on 04/07/2015 6:55:51 AM PDT by Leep (Ronney/McCain 2016!)
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To: a fool in paradise

This clown just signed up today. Who’s in charge of the ZOT brigade?


70 posted on 04/07/2015 6:56:09 AM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: fwdude

71 posted on 04/07/2015 6:58:00 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Funny how Hollywood's 'No Nukes' crowd has been silent during Obama's Iranian nuclear negotiations.)
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To: MayorKoch

If, by “intelligent” you mean “self-delusional”.


72 posted on 04/07/2015 6:58:55 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: a fool in paradise

the liberal mind has through the years developed such a tight knit cocoon of own lies..... that it can longer discern anything that happening out here...in the real world


73 posted on 04/07/2015 6:59:52 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Durus

I’ve been told on FR that it is black people who voted for Queen Sheila Jackson Lee but she represents the liberal bastion of the Houston Heights (with expensive homes) and recently saw white well to do liberals fawning over her and complimenting her positions when she stage crashed another music performance. I even once saw her send a staffer to interrupt a James Brown concert to pull this stunt for 8 minutes.


74 posted on 04/07/2015 7:01:57 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Funny how Hollywood's 'No Nukes' crowd has been silent during Obama's Iranian nuclear negotiations.)
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To: Leep

My new tag line.


75 posted on 04/07/2015 7:03:14 AM PDT by Leep (To put it in laymen's terms liberal/progressive ist coo coo.)
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To: MayorKoch

why do NONE of their programs work....???
look, no one is being fooled.... psuedo intellectuals have been around forever...
going to Harvard or any of the other bullshit ivy league vacation establishments for the rich and the token poor they give aid to....doesn’t mean shit.. look at the Kennedys... a joke of a corrupt scandalous family, who cheated their way through Havad....no R’s in thier vocabulary.... scumbags of the highest order.... ted the murderer, john the loverboy joke on all sorts of drugs, ...hilary, obama . ALL JOKES... all libtards, all useless, all damaging ot the nation...all POWER HUNGRY NAZIS...


76 posted on 04/07/2015 7:03:55 AM PDT by zzwhale
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To: MayorKoch

I’ve been in the TV/film industry for 25 years. As per this industry, it is an attractant, grooming, and breeding ground for narcissists. Unfortunately, I used to be one, in my twenties, so they’re now easy to spot in my 50s. So, of course, it would be taken over and controlled by liberals since it’s filled with self-serving narcissists.


77 posted on 04/07/2015 7:05:48 AM PDT by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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To: Crim

Oh, that’s just hilarious - there really is a “stupid Leftist” gene!


78 posted on 04/07/2015 7:06:29 AM PDT by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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To: MayorKoch

IBTZ


79 posted on 04/07/2015 7:06:52 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: MayorKoch

If we are talking classical liberalism, sure! But we aren’t. Today’s leftists are complete idiotic morons. Their minds have been retarded at the teenage level. They are just about the farthest thing from intelligence and critical thinking you can get.


80 posted on 04/07/2015 7:06:56 AM PDT by vpintheak (Call the left what they are - regressive control-freaks)
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