Lefties proven (again) to tend smarter than right-wingers

[Astyanax]

Actually, I think they are making a stronger statement than that....

As with all statistical arguments, these results DO NOT say that all individuals with left-wing beliefs have elevated IQs or that individuals with right-wing beliefs all have lower than average IQs.

Absolutely. You have understood and interpreted the paper correctly.  Though it appears that not everyone who likes your post has done the same... 

[Astyanax]

I have been a conservative for many years now, just a moderate conservative...

Having known you online for twenty years, I think yes, you probably are. Maybe a bit less ‘moderate’ than you think, but certainly not one of the rabid wingnuts who overran ATS and drove it into the ground.

Anyway, you’re a bit late to this party, but welcome. Good post, even if I don’t agree with all of it.

[Astyanax]

The reality in which we all live is evidence enough, and you know it well.

You certainly don’t live in the same reality as everyone else if in your world it’s the left who are
 

the anti semites

This is from the highly conservative Cato Institute. You may also have heard of these guys. And then, of course, there are the Nazis. Their successors are still around, in Germany as well as in the United States.

In the real world, antisemitism exists on both right and left; even the United States Government says so.

As for ‘cuddling up to Islam,’ that statement itself suggests that you have a beef with a quarter of humanity simply because of the religion they follow. You know what people in the real world call that? Prejudice.

[Oldcarpy2]

Same old Carpy eh?   The old bait a switch.  The reality in which we all live is evidence enough, and you know it well. The left are nuts, or what passes for the left these days - you know, the anti free speech folks, the anti semites, the people who get confused about make and female, the ones who try to block elections they’ll lose, those guys cuddling up to Islam—thinks they’ve found a political buddy (now that truly is nuts), the ones who like a good old open border. I mean we could go on and on. But rather than face the truth and admit to it, you’ll just wriggle like you always do, deflect and sink into that shell of intellectual superiority you try to use as armour, without ever realising it’s your own prison.

You get all that from me asking another poster for a source?

[Vermilion]

You certainly don’t live in the same reality as everyone else if in your world it’s the left who are
 

This is from the highly conservative Cato Institute. You may also have heard of these guys. And then, of course, there are the Nazis. Their successors are still around, in Germany as well as in the United States.

In the real world, antisemitism exists on both right and left; even the United States Government says so.

As for ‘cuddling up to Islam,’ that statement itself suggests that you have a beef with a quarter of humanity simply because of the religion they follow. You know what people in the real world call that? Prejudice.

“Highly conservative” LoL
Cato has been captured by a bunch of crazy libertarians who like open borders and loose criminals.

Also, it’s important to learn about Islam from Muslims rather than from vote-greedy western politicians or whoever else it is who you’re getting your information from…


““Muslim men are permitted to take non-Muslim women captive and rape them, even if they are married.” -Sheikh Saleh Al-Fawzan
https://x.com/GAZAWOOD1/status/2037203438379950334

[Oldcarpy2]

“Highly conservative” LoL
Cato has been captured by a bunch of crazy libertarians who like open borders and loose criminals.

Also, it’s important to learn about Islam from Muslims rather than from vote-greedy western politicians or whoever else it is who you’re getting your information from…


““Muslim men are permitted to take non-Muslim women captive and rape them, even if they are married.” -Sheikh Saleh Al-Fawzan
https://x.com/GAZAWOOD1/status/2037203438379950334

Do you really think all Muslim men actually do that?

[FlyersFan]

Do you really think all Muslim men actually do that?

The Muslim religion is built around sex.   It's obsessed with it.   
It's fake afterlife is permeated with it.   
Their laws are infected with sexually orientated garbage that 
treat women as a sub class.   
Their male dominated cultures treat women that way as well.  
In it's purest form you see behavior like in Afghanistan.
Strip away Western influence and that is indeed what you get.
It's a cancer on humanity.

[Oldcarpy2]

The Muslim religion is built around sex.   It's obsessed with it.   
It's fake afterlife is permeated with it.   
Their laws are infected with sexually orientated garbage that 
treat women as a sub class.   
Their male dominated cultures treat women that way as well.  
In it's purest form you see behavior like in Afghanistan.
Strip away Western influence and that is indeed what you get.
It's a cancer on humanity.

Muslim fundamentalism is indeed a cancer.

Clearly, very many moderate Iranians would agree.

[Solvedit]

Occupations I think of as skewing more right-wing would include Wall Street financiers, media moguls,  megachurch pastors, property developers, casino operators and the Mafia. [Emphasis added.]

Now how about answering my question.

That's silly.  The Mafia runs on corrupting and/or blacklisting gifted children to distribute their intelligence to the underprivileged via....aerials in the sky.  

"We lose ourselves but we find it a-a-all, 'cause we are the ones that wanna play," etc.

[Solvedit]

I think conservatives are more narrow in their thinking and more focused on specific end goals. 

Creative people open up their minds to more possibilities — making them thinkers and explorers. 

Intelligence is nothing if not applied. Creative people have more avenues to expand their application of intelligence.

I think Liberals/Left tend to fall more into the Creative mindset — therefore a more expanded intelligence.

They often view things in simplistic ways and fail to understand that a topic is more intricate than the catchy phrases they rely on.

Why do the left cancel and sometimes even execute people for challenging them? Why do the left cry "no Kings" when they lose an election?

Also, can it be that conceiving of possibilities and entertaining the ideas of others is easier than vetting the possibilities and the ideas of others?  

Can it be the narrow mindedness the left think they perceive is actually their own unwillingness or inability to vet some of their high-falutin' notions?

The actual case is that there's probably a few smart leftists manipulating the illusion of possibilities which won't work in order to get power and popularity.  The hateful left in this country does try to make you pay via ostracism if you don't march in lock-step with rigid liberal orthodoxy.