|*Your*| Perception of who is Smarter, Leftists or Rightists?

Sorry, the concept is above you.

 

Honestly, I don't generalize, but if you had asked the question in a slightly different way, I might have actually answered. The question being, who do you find more likely to be impressed by their own intelligence....

 

I consider myself a centrist.

The left is what I call book smart with little common sense. They can quote Nietsche and Marx, but cannot fix a flat tire or change the oil in their car. What my Father called college educated idiots.

The right is a little of both, but more on the right would be considered Craftsman and have common sense. They don't rely on others to provide for them and are more likely to work on their own cars, hunt and fish.

 

Many try to equate education to intelligence. Teachers try to push this down everyone's throat. Making their contribution to society more important. Some of the most successful people were poor student. Warren Buffett and Bill Gates are prime examples of this. What education actually does is give you information that an intelligent person can apply.

True intelligence is the ability to sift through the BS and get to the meat of an issue and not be swayed by the so called experts. The real difference is the right believes in accepting personal responsibility. While the left has Socialistic views. The fact that it has been proven the Socialism does not work indicates the left either can not accept reality or is not that intelligent.

 

This is a difficult question to answer because there is no correlation between intelligence and political views. It is all based on one’s quality of education and their life experiences.

 

In what way?

 

Intelligence is an innate and natural ability that we are born with. Education is what helps us unlock that natural intelligence in different ways.

 

There is no question that the more progressive members of society are far more intelligent than those on the right. This because they are innately more open minded and receptive to new ideas. They lack the natural prejudices and closed mindedness of the far right. Anyone can readily see how easily the progressives defeat the forum right wingers in our daily forum debates. It's the old story of men against boys, to coin a phrase, in the way the progressives easily defeat those right wingers. Easily.

 

HAHAHAHAHA! Yeah that's why when anyone injects logical argument into the debate...the left immediately resorts to name calling... you're racist, bigoted, anti-science, anti-muslim, etc. You keep telling yourself that you and the left are smarter and more open minded. That's why the left censors right leaning speakers and riots to close down anyone that they disagree with...

 

Neither, both extremes are morons. If you go by statistics the Republicans in recent history either tie or beat the Democrats in the college educated vote with Trump and McCain (who lost virtually every demographic to Obama) being the only two exceptions. Even Romney won the college educated vote. Democrats win post graduate education but they also get the vast majority of high school educated Trump being the exception this time around. If you go by income then the more you make statistically the more you vote Republican up until you get to they hyper rich multi billionare levels where it splits even again.

 

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On the contrary, it is the far right that engages in far more hate and name calling. Words such as "commie" "líbt@rd" "anti-Semite" "anti-American", etc are always used by the right who are obviously engaging in self projections. Nobody engages in more censorship than they do such as in their Fox network, right wing colleges that refuse to allow speakers who dissent from their views, Tea Party, KKK rallies, and the type of terrorism we saw in Charlottesville. They cannot think all that clearly but they sure are emotional and lacking the type of rationality that typifies the more progressive community.

 

As Jack Nicholson says, "you can't handle the truth!" Fox news has more liberal speakers on than any of the MSM allow on their programs. The last KKK rally got violent because liberals were throwing bags of urine and feces at them. Tea party rallies have not been violent but sure we're targeted by Obama's IRS.
As for Charlottesville, like l said there are extremists on both sides. The students that rioted at Berkely to prevent Milo from speaking, and others. Protestors outside the Presidential Inauguration, shouting not my President, and trying to intimidate people from attending. BLM shutting down highways, the list goes on and on...the left has not been this crazy since the Vietnam War.

 

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It's not mentioned in the Doomsday book sorry. Only servants are. So nice spin yourself mate. But servants are not slaves.
Your "credible source" turned out to be a TV station.

History has not provided us with factual accounts of slavery. That is my point.
We have supposition only.
So you may suppose there was slavery, but you have nothing to support it with. No factual accounts of it and no history of it.
And i am as historically accurate in my supposition that there was none as you are. The absence of facts is neither proof nor disproof.
But i lean towards disproof. Slavery after all wasn't mentioned. Which suggests to me, that it was not occuring, more than it suggests the opposite.

I would however agree with a previous posters assessment of being shang highed onto a ship as slavery.

 

Many liberals and Leftists I've known (and know of) are quite intelligent, well-read, and well-educated. Many Conservatives (like myself) are intelligent, and are actually less well-read overall. Perhaps a key difference I've noticed is that we on the Right tend to be more practical, focused, and goal-oriented (and successful) than many on the Left, who often lack much 'drive', or interest in "getting ahead".

We on the Right probably tend to grow more insensitive, selfish, and callous toward the problems of others. Many on the Left seem to spend way too much time and mental energy gushing over the problems of people who, for whatever reason, aren't particularly interested in improving their own situation in life. We on the Right are most often free-market capitalists. Many on the liberal Left quickly identify as Socialists who want government to tax successful people more, so that they can be provided with what they evidently cannot earn themselves.

To the extend that most of this is true, we on the Right tend to accumulate more wealth, have nicer "things", and have many more choices in life as we get older. Those on the Left tend to "tread water" in a career, or business sense, achieve comparatively little (in a material sense), and are more likely to want and need government handouts of various kinds and "services" in order to make ends meet as the years pass by....

How much has to do with intelligence, per se? Probably not a great deal, honestly. It's more a matter of emphasis, focus, and interest.

 

Good analysis. I would add that those on the right are more goal oriented, self reliant and happier. The right is also far less passionate about politics. When Obama won, no one demonstrated. The left is still demonstrating and whining about the Trump victory. I also know few on the right who hated Obama. I know many who did not like his policies but few that hated him personally. I know dozens on the left who absolutely hate Trump. They can not accept that someone sees things differently than they. It is like a form of mental illness.

 

Denial on your part does not alter the FACTUAL REALITY of the DOCUMENTED history of slavery in Britain that I have provided credible substantiation for in prior posts. That you cannot refute those facts is not my problem.

 

You can't reason with haters or trolls. They lack the intelligence or integrity to have a meaningful discussion. They rely on lies, half truths and unverified internet accounts to anchor their position of ignorance. It is best to just ignore them.