Accurate Story in the Daily Mail !?

[xoggoth]

The less inteligent probably rely more on instinct, hence right wing, and that makes their views more realistic and practical, unlike the often unworkable, idealistic nonsense of the intellectual.

[DodgyAgent]

The problem with all this bulltulip is that the "right wing" politics they talk about are actualy much more aligned with what would be seen as far left than they are with Tory.
There is an idea of a political compass that compares attitudes in 4 directions rather than 2 which ends up with the far right incredibly close in ideology to the far left though their reasons for being there are somewhat different.

Exactly. For example the nationalist so called "far right" party of le pen is more left wing than any of the other parties

[DodgyAgent]

The less inteligent probably rely more on instinct, hence right wing, and that makes their views more realistic and practical, unlike the often unworkable, idealistic nonsense of the intellectual.

Intellectuals have real difficulty with emotional intelligence because they cannot communicate thoughts or actions at simple levels. So either they behave in an elitist manner - in other words they are too important to engage with lesser beings - or they patronise - by calling themselves "left wing"

[Churchill]

Right-wingers are less intelligent than left wingers, says controversial study - and conservative politics can lead people to be racist | Mail Online

And all that posted by a Pseudo-intellectual w4nker. Jolly well done!

[EternalOptimist]

I am unimpressed by all this 'intelligence' malarky. I have met some highly intelligent people who believe in the most absurd things, and I have met one person who believed very strongly in one thing on monday, then the opposite thing on friday.
He had a religious conversion from one faith to another
when I asked him how he could have been so wrong on the monday - he looked genuinely puzzled, when I asked him if he might change his mind again and flip back - he got VERY annoyed

So I dont think intelligence is any guarantee of getting things right

[EternalOptimist]

And all that posted by a Pseudo-intellectual w4nker. Jolly well done!

good point, well made.

There is something outside intelligence that we dont yet understand (i dont anyway)
but there are a couple of clues.

some people have the answer then scrabble around for the supporting evidence, we call them pseudos, some people have bits of evidence and scrabble around for a meaning, we call them blue sky thinkers, some people cant br @rsed and concentrate on eating, making money and procreating. We call them grounded

[sasguru]

I'm a highly intelligent right-winger who knows you're all cliche-spewing cretins.

[vetran]

hilarious, most 'left wingers' still believe in communism, even after Animal farm put the risks of such beliefs in baby talk.

Note most educational establishments are populated by the left wing, could it be our measurement of 'intelligence' is tilted towards the skills of the left wing?

My Daughter's homework yesterday was discussing flooding, she was adamant that it was all caused by 'Global warming' no consideration of deforestation, siting of housing etc. Its like a religion in academe.

[Churchill]

I'm a delusional onanist who has to wear a steak around my neck for the dog to play with me and you all smell of poo!

Kids, eh?

[DodgyAgent]

hilarious, most 'left wingers' still believe in communism, even after Animal farm put the risks of such beliefs in baby talk.

Note most educational establishments are populated by the left wing, could it be our measurement of 'intelligence' is tilted towards the skills of the left wing?

My Daughter's homework yesterday was discussing flooding, she was adamant that it was all caused by 'Global warming' no consideration of deforestation, siting of housing etc. Its like a religion in academe.

It is interesting that communism is still talked about as if it were still an acceptable ideology today despite it being discredited as fascism has been. very eloquently argued by Janet Daley in the Telegraph on saturday:

The lessons of the fall of communism have still not been learnt - Telegraph

The failure of communism should have been, after all, not just a turning point in geo-political power – the ending of the Cold War and the break-up of the Warsaw Pact – but in modern thinking about the state and its relationship to the economy, about collectivism vs individualism, and about public vs private power. Where was the discussion, the trenchant analysis, or the fundamental debate about how and why the collectivist solutions failed, which should have been so pervasive that it would have percolated down from the educated classes to the bright 18-year-olds? Fascism is so thoroughly (and, of course, rightly) repudiated that even the use of the word as a casual slur is considered slanderous, while communism, which enslaved more people for longer (and also committed mass murder), is regarded with almost sentimental condescension.