Are conservatives smarter than liberals?

[thereisnospoon]

Every day on this board we seem to have threads about 'how stupid are libs?', 'dimbocrats', 'typical liberal stupidity'....you know the drill.

The strange thing is, I don't see a lot of posts claiming the opposite. Some comments, sure, but I think most people will agree that there are far, far more posts labelling liberalism as being in some way stupid, a mental illness etc than there are posts about conservatism claiming the same superiority.

I don't get this at all - I see no link between political views and intelligence. I've met some brilliant socialists, a couple of brilliant fascists, and everything in between. I have met enough painfully stupid liberals and painfully stupid conservatives that I don't think either side are in too great a position to start claiming a monopoly on smarts.

Isn't claiming 'liberalism is a mental illness' the kind of Catch 22 comment that only an intellectual dwarf could assume?

Or is there a reason that some conservatives believe they are intellectually superior?

Or is there a reason that some conservatives believe they are intellectually superior?

What do you expect from people who believe the world is 6,000 years old and God controls the climate? That science is a "faith" and evolution a lie? People they gave us the Iraq fiasco, the deficit, and that think Canadian oil isn't "foreign". They think "supply and demand" is a wild liberal theory. They think ending the minimum wage will give us "prosperity".

Look at conservative states. The wealthy ones are only wealthy because they dig it out of the ground. They create nothing. They don't know anything. For the last 30 years, every one of their policies have hurt the country.

These people are so fucking stupid, they truly believe that white conservative Confederates fought to end slavery.

These people are so fucking ignorant, they believe the credit downgrade, voter suppression, the block to investigating BP after the oil spill, and the government shutdown was the fault of Democrats even though their own leaders tell us they did it and it worked.

Then entire world laughs at them. Even though their party is 90% white, they believe they are the party of diversity.

You simply can't get anymore ignorant than right wing Republicans. When they said they didn't want their children to be taught critical thinking skills, they needn't have worried. That's something they will never learn from other Republicans.

I may not be intellectually superior to a lot of educated liberals, but I am smarter than all liberals combined just because they support obama and his failed policies.

There is a huge difference between an educated person ( book smart) and who is intelligent.
The former can regurgitate information which was fed to them with resounding ease. They can take examinations and receive high grades. The real world exposes those who can think, improvise overcome and adapt and those who if their books and studies are removed, could not think their way out of a wet paper bag if they were spotted the open end.

 

[Saigon]

I may not be intellectually superior to a lot of educated liberals, but I am smarter than all liberals combined just because they support obama and his failed policies.

No, there are people far, far, far smarter than you are who support Obam's policies - in many cases because they understand what you cannot.

 

[thereisnospoon]

Another lib trait which indicates a lack of substance or intelligence is they depend upon studies which THEY commission and fund.

And of course you can back this up, right?

Really, man - that is silly beyond any measure. Why not try to come up with something sensible?

I'm not the one who posted "researchers".....These unknown accountable to no one people in white coats who get paid to come up with results which the payor wishes to see.
Let's take the so called global warming studies which were found to be invalid based on information which did not fit the agenda, were redacted or left completely out of reports.
That left us with the "climate change denier" narrative. Which was a completely emotional response designed to silence those who had a the audacity to question the agenda.

 

[thereisnospoon]

I may not be intellectually superior to a lot of educated liberals, but I am smarter than all liberals combined just because they support obama and his failed policies.

No, there are people far, far, far smarter than you are who support Obam's policies - in many cases because they understand what you cannot.

That's an opinion.

 

[Bfgrn]

Every day on this board we seem to have threads about 'how stupid are libs?', 'dimbocrats', 'typical liberal stupidity'....you know the drill.

The strange thing is, I don't see a lot of posts claiming the opposite. Some comments, sure, but I think most people will agree that there are far, far more posts labelling liberalism as being in some way stupid, a mental illness etc than there are posts about conservatism claiming the same superiority.

I don't get this at all - I see no link between political views and intelligence. I've met some brilliant socialists, a couple of brilliant fascists, and everything in between. I have met enough painfully stupid liberals and painfully stupid conservatives that I don't think either side are in too great a position to start claiming a monopoly on smarts.

Isn't claiming 'liberalism is a mental illness' the kind of Catch 22 comment that only an intellectual dwarf could assume?

Or is there a reason that some conservatives believe they are intellectually superior?

If you truly have substance in a debate, you don't resort directly to "You are stupid!"......you simply use your substance.

When someone holds the debate "You are stupid" EVERYONE knows they lost the debate.

I cannot fathom the number of times a liberal seeing themselves on the short end of an argument has to resort to insults and character assassination as a means to deflect attention away from the issue.
Top five cliches liberals use to avoid real arguments - The Washington Post
Liberals will insist their ideology is one of tolerance for other points of view. There are mega numbers of examples showing this is simply not true.

Jonah Goldberg? You can't be serious...

 

[thereisnospoon]

When liberals have to LIE to trick their own base into supporting their policies, well there you have it.

I think this posts says a lot about what I am talking about - neither party has a monopoly on honesty, not even a particularly strong record of honesty.

And yet here we see posters who scream about one party every day, but are simply incapable of screaming about the other. I don't see that as being particularly intelligent.

Oh please, not another 'the other side does it to' excuse. Look the left's lying has spiraled completely out of control, its like comparing a camp fire to a forest fire.

If you think the Left has anything to do with the Chinese Government and their perspectives you need to do 1 hours research to prove yourself ignorant.

The Left Wing media today is applauding the Chinese people for fighting for their individual rights to protect them from a Government using them as profit drones. Occupy is strong in China today. If you even know what Occupy is....

Basic human rights are a good thing.
Occupy....Nobody cares. Where are they now here in the US?......Gone. Hopefully now working for a living instead of the social sponges they wanted to be.

 

[thereisnospoon]

When liberals have to LIE to trick their own base into supporting their policies, well there you have it.

I think this posts says a lot about what I am talking about - neither party has a monopoly on honesty, not even a particularly strong record of honesty.

And yet here we see posters who scream about one party every day, but are simply incapable of screaming about the other. I don't see that as being particularly intelligent.

Oh please, not another 'the other side does it to' excuse. Look the left's lying has spiraled completely out of control, its like comparing a camp fire to a forest fire.

If you think the Left has anything to do with the Chinese Government and their perspectives you need to do 1 hours research to prove yourself ignorant.

The Left Wing media today is applauding the Chinese people for fighting for their individual rights to protect them from a Government using them as profit drones.

Riiiiight, Obama has repeatedly held up China as an example of good vs America as an example of bad but there's nothing to see, move along, we get it that's why we kicked the living shit out of the Dem's in this election.

The Chinese people are fed up with a Government that is making them pollute their own atmosphere and work for nothing. China has "smog days" in school similar to our "snow days"

What the hell does China have to do with anything?

 

[bigrebnc1775]

I may not be intellectually superior to a lot of educated liberals, but I am smarter than all liberals combined just because they support obama and his failed policies.

No, there are people far, far, far smarter than you are who support Obam's policies - in many cases because they understand what you cannot.

oh fuck no only an idiot moron would be able to support obama and his failed policies and lies.

 

[kiwiman127]

When liberals have to LIE to trick their own base into supporting their policies, well there you have it.

I think this posts says a lot about what I am talking about - neither party has a monopoly on honesty, not even a particularly strong record of honesty.

And yet here we see posters who scream about one party every day, but are simply incapable of screaming about the other. I don't see that as being particularly intelligent.

Oh please, not another 'the other side does it to' excuse. Look the left's lying has spiraled completely out of control, its like comparing a camp fire to a forest fire.

Now you may be intelligent but this post is just plain hyper-biased and is a display of someone not using all their gray matter.

 

[Wry Catcher]

Every day on this board we seem to have threads about 'how stupid are libs?', 'dimbocrats', 'typical liberal stupidity'....you know the drill.

The strange thing is, I don't see a lot of posts claiming the opposite. Some comments, sure, but I think most people will agree that there are far, far more posts labelling liberalism as being in some way stupid, a mental illness etc than there are posts about conservatism claiming the same superiority.

I don't get this at all - I see no link between political views and intelligence. I've met some brilliant socialists, a couple of brilliant fascists, and everything in between. I have met enough painfully stupid liberals and painfully stupid conservatives that I don't think either side are in too great a position to start claiming a monopoly on smarts.

Isn't claiming 'liberalism is a mental illness' the kind of Catch 22 comment that only an intellectual dwarf could assume?

Or is there a reason that some conservatives believe they are intellectually superior?

"'liberalism is a mental illness'", was a comment used excessively by one of AM Radio's oddest political personalities. Michael Weiner, aka, Michael Savage, is a type A personality who makes broad judgments and mountains out of mole hills for a living.

 

[Bfgrn]

WOW. talk about blind ignorance...

You IGNORE this?

"who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it -- that that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them"

Truth is not a friend to some people, it seems to be an insult.
Many Americans have come to view government as the solution to their problems rather than the cause of them. The principles of limited government by our Founders, to an ever larger government is a dangerously misguided trend that promotes an entitlement mentality in a country that has long been known for its positive work ethic. The entitlement mentality, in turn, encourages the growth of government and the cycle continues, creating a downward spiral toward disaster.
After decades of prosperity, America’s economy is being undermined by a rapidly mutating government that devours initiative, drive, innovation, and the capital needed to seed an economic recovery. Too many Americans have bought into the increasingly discredited philosophy of the left that the government is the answer to all problems.
Some government does help but not all. There needs to be a delicate balance between the two.

Thank you for proving my point...you don't use the 'word', instead you describe 'moocher'...

I just PROVED to you that there is no entitlement gone wild in America. But don't let FACTS dent your dogmatic parroting.

You have just described the right wing world view, not the view of our founders. Another 'word' for that is ignorance.

There is no "rapid mutation' going on except for the right being completely brainwashed by plutocrats and talking heads. The only 'entitlement mentality' in this country is from the wealthy, not the poor.

Did you see the resent video on the news with those women who had a hissy fit because they got there too late to get their egg Mcmuffin?

There you go...forget the FACTS, anecdotal evidence is all you need to reinforce your dogma...

A vast amount of people in this country has the attitude of give me, give me, give and I want it and I want it now.
An entitlement mentality is a state of mind in which an individual comes to believe that privileges are instead rights.
Lack of personal responsibility. Just as those with an entitlement mentality typically expect others to solve their problems, they also refuse to accept that the problems are of their own making.
Just like the women at McDonalds.
They arrived late after the breakfast served under the hours of......... and expected to still be able to order from the breakfast menu. It was their own fault for not getting there on time.

AGAIN...double down on your anecdotal evidence that supports your dogma...you CAN'T be wrong...

"Entitlement mentality" is a manufactured term used by the people who have brainwashed you...

The term "entitlement" originally referred to aristocrats. Aristocrats had titles, and they thought that they were thereby entitled to various things, particularly the deference of the common people. Everyone else, by contrast, was dependent on the aristocrats. This is conservatism. Yet in the 1990's, conservative rhetors decided that the people who actually claim entitlement are people on welfare. They furthermore created an empirically false association between welfare and dependency. But, as I have mentioned, welfare is precisely a way of eliminating dependency on the aristocracy and the cultural authorities that serve it. I do not recall anyone ever noting this inversion of meaning.

 

[thereisnospoon]

Every day on this board we seem to have threads about 'how stupid are libs?', 'dimbocrats', 'typical liberal stupidity'....you know the drill.

The strange thing is, I don't see a lot of posts claiming the opposite. Some comments, sure, but I think most people will agree that there are far, far more posts labelling liberalism as being in some way stupid, a mental illness etc than there are posts about conservatism claiming the same superiority.

I don't get this at all - I see no link between political views and intelligence. I've met some brilliant socialists, a couple of brilliant fascists, and everything in between. I have met enough painfully stupid liberals and painfully stupid conservatives that I don't think either side are in too great a position to start claiming a monopoly on smarts.

Isn't claiming 'liberalism is a mental illness' the kind of Catch 22 comment that only an intellectual dwarf could assume?

Or is there a reason that some conservatives believe they are intellectually superior?

the proof is the idiotic and harmful policies libs support- yes they are dumber; much more so.

^Like healthcare, housing, food and things like that?

Nice set of buzz terms. No argument. No substance.
Just rattle off a list of words and there is an example of a liberal attempting to tug at the heart strings of a target audience.
On planet liberal a reduction of an annual increase of a government department is reported to the media as a "cut".....This is done to stir up emotional responses.
"Shut down the government".....Never happened. Never will. But do libs care? No....It sounds real good such that it can be used to foment a "crisis".

 

[Wry Catcher]

I may not be intellectually superior to a lot of educated liberals, but I am smarter than all liberals combined just because they support obama and his failed policies.

No, there are people far, far, far smarter than you are who support Obam's policies - in many cases because they understand what you cannot.

oh fuck no only an idiot moron would be able to support obama and his failed policies and lies.

Had you not used the phrase, I would never have thought an idiot moron existed.

 

[Faun]

Every day on this board we seem to have threads about 'how stupid are libs?', 'dimbocrats', 'typical liberal stupidity'....you know the drill.

The strange thing is, I don't see a lot of posts claiming the opposite. Some comments, sure, but I think most people will agree that there are far, far more posts labelling liberalism as being in some way stupid, a mental illness etc than there are posts about conservatism claiming the same superiority.

I don't get this at all - I see no link between political views and intelligence. I've met some brilliant socialists, a couple of brilliant fascists, and everything in between. I have met enough painfully stupid liberals and painfully stupid conservatives that I don't think either side are in too great a position to start claiming a monopoly on smarts.

Isn't claiming 'liberalism is a mental illness' the kind of Catch 22 comment that only an intellectual dwarf could assume?

Or is there a reason that some conservatives believe they are intellectually superior?

Or is there a reason that some conservatives believe they are intellectually superior?

What do you expect from people who believe the world is 6,000 years old and God controls the climate? That science is a "faith" and evolution a lie? People they gave us the Iraq fiasco, the deficit, and that think Canadian oil isn't "foreign". They think "supply and demand" is a wild liberal theory. They think ending the minimum wage will give us "prosperity".

Look at conservative states. The wealthy ones are only wealthy because they dig it out of the ground. They create nothing. They don't know anything. For the last 30 years, every one of their policies have hurt the country.

These people are so fucking stupid, they truly believe that white conservative Confederates fought to end slavery.

These people are so fucking ignorant, they believe the credit downgrade, voter suppression, the block to investigating BP after the oil spill, and the government shutdown was the fault of Democrats even though their own leaders tell us they did it and it worked.

Then entire world laughs at them. Even though their party is 90% white, they believe they are the party of diversity.

You simply can't get anymore ignorant than right wing Republicans. When they said they didn't want their children to be taught critical thinking skills, they needn't have worried. That's something they will never learn from other Republicans.

I may not be intellectually superior to a lot of educated liberals, but I am smarter than all liberals combined just because they support obama and his failed policies.

Spits a Bush voter.

 

[thereisnospoon]

Every day on this board we seem to have threads about 'how stupid are libs?', 'dimbocrats', 'typical liberal stupidity'....you know the drill.

The strange thing is, I don't see a lot of posts claiming the opposite. Some comments, sure, but I think most people will agree that there are far, far more posts labelling liberalism as being in some way stupid, a mental illness etc than there are posts about conservatism claiming the same superiority.

I don't get this at all - I see no link between political views and intelligence. I've met some brilliant socialists, a couple of brilliant fascists, and everything in between. I have met enough painfully stupid liberals and painfully stupid conservatives that I don't think either side are in too great a position to start claiming a monopoly on smarts.

Isn't claiming 'liberalism is a mental illness' the kind of Catch 22 comment that only an intellectual dwarf could assume?

Or is there a reason that some conservatives believe they are intellectually superior?

the proof is the idiotic and harmful policies libs support- yes they are dumber; much more so.

^Like healthcare, housing, food and things like that?

huh? Conservatives don't support that?

We are discussing USA politics, not Capitalism. NO, Cons today don't believe in "entitlements" such as food/shelter/education/health. They OPENLY want to cut/end these programs.

Genius....If we are discussing USA politics( ideologies) then why dredge up China?

 

[bigrebnc1775]

I may not be intellectually superior to a lot of educated liberals, but I am smarter than all liberals combined just because they support obama and his failed policies.

No, there are people far, far, far smarter than you are who support Obam's policies - in many cases because they understand what you cannot.

oh fuck no only an idiot moron would be able to support obama and his failed policies and lies.

Had you not used the phrase, I would never have thought an idiot moron existed.

look in the mirror.

 

[bigrebnc1775]

Every day on this board we seem to have threads about 'how stupid are libs?', 'dimbocrats', 'typical liberal stupidity'....you know the drill.

The strange thing is, I don't see a lot of posts claiming the opposite. Some comments, sure, but I think most people will agree that there are far, far more posts labelling liberalism as being in some way stupid, a mental illness etc than there are posts about conservatism claiming the same superiority.

I don't get this at all - I see no link between political views and intelligence. I've met some brilliant socialists, a couple of brilliant fascists, and everything in between. I have met enough painfully stupid liberals and painfully stupid conservatives that I don't think either side are in too great a position to start claiming a monopoly on smarts.

Isn't claiming 'liberalism is a mental illness' the kind of Catch 22 comment that only an intellectual dwarf could assume?

Or is there a reason that some conservatives believe they are intellectually superior?

Or is there a reason that some conservatives believe they are intellectually superior?

What do you expect from people who believe the world is 6,000 years old and God controls the climate? That science is a "faith" and evolution a lie? People they gave us the Iraq fiasco, the deficit, and that think Canadian oil isn't "foreign". They think "supply and demand" is a wild liberal theory. They think ending the minimum wage will give us "prosperity".

Look at conservative states. The wealthy ones are only wealthy because they dig it out of the ground. They create nothing. They don't know anything. For the last 30 years, every one of their policies have hurt the country.

These people are so fucking stupid, they truly believe that white conservative Confederates fought to end slavery.

These people are so fucking ignorant, they believe the credit downgrade, voter suppression, the block to investigating BP after the oil spill, and the government shutdown was the fault of Democrats even though their own leaders tell us they did it and it worked.

Then entire world laughs at them. Even though their party is 90% white, they believe they are the party of diversity.

You simply can't get anymore ignorant than right wing Republicans. When they said they didn't want their children to be taught critical thinking skills, they needn't have worried. That's something they will never learn from other Republicans.

I may not be intellectually superior to a lot of educated liberals, but I am smarter than all liberals combined just because they support obama and his failed policies.

Spits a Bush voter.

nothing will ever be worse than a dumb ass obama supporter. even the creators of obamacare think yall are stupid.

 

[thereisnospoon]

Every day on this board we seem to have threads about 'how stupid are libs?', 'dimbocrats', 'typical liberal stupidity'....you know the drill.

The strange thing is, I don't see a lot of posts claiming the opposite. Some comments, sure, but I think most people will agree that there are far, far more posts labelling liberalism as being in some way stupid, a mental illness etc than there are posts about conservatism claiming the same superiority.

I don't get this at all - I see no link between political views and intelligence. I've met some brilliant socialists, a couple of brilliant fascists, and everything in between. I have met enough painfully stupid liberals and painfully stupid conservatives that I don't think either side are in too great a position to start claiming a monopoly on smarts.

Isn't claiming 'liberalism is a mental illness' the kind of Catch 22 comment that only an intellectual dwarf could assume?

Or is there a reason that some conservatives believe they are intellectually superior?

the proof is the idiotic and harmful policies libs support- yes they are dumber; much more so.

^Like healthcare, housing, food and things like that?

huh? Conservatives don't support that?

We are discussing USA politics, not Capitalism. NO, Cons today don't believe in "entitlements" such as food/shelter/education/health. They OPENLY want to cut/end these programs.

Which programs?......Again, you rattle off a list of terms and claim the conservative side wants to "cut these programs".....HUH?......
That is not a substantive rebuttal. It is an attempt to stir an emotional tempest.

 

[Faun]

Every day on this board we seem to have threads about 'how stupid are libs?', 'dimbocrats', 'typical liberal stupidity'....you know the drill.

The strange thing is, I don't see a lot of posts claiming the opposite. Some comments, sure, but I think most people will agree that there are far, far more posts labelling liberalism as being in some way stupid, a mental illness etc than there are posts about conservatism claiming the same superiority.

I don't get this at all - I see no link between political views and intelligence. I've met some brilliant socialists, a couple of brilliant fascists, and everything in between. I have met enough painfully stupid liberals and painfully stupid conservatives that I don't think either side are in too great a position to start claiming a monopoly on smarts.

Isn't claiming 'liberalism is a mental illness' the kind of Catch 22 comment that only an intellectual dwarf could assume?

Or is there a reason that some conservatives believe they are intellectually superior?

Or is there a reason that some conservatives believe they are intellectually superior?

What do you expect from people who believe the world is 6,000 years old and God controls the climate? That science is a "faith" and evolution a lie? People they gave us the Iraq fiasco, the deficit, and that think Canadian oil isn't "foreign". They think "supply and demand" is a wild liberal theory. They think ending the minimum wage will give us "prosperity".

Look at conservative states. The wealthy ones are only wealthy because they dig it out of the ground. They create nothing. They don't know anything. For the last 30 years, every one of their policies have hurt the country.

These people are so fucking stupid, they truly believe that white conservative Confederates fought to end slavery.

These people are so fucking ignorant, they believe the credit downgrade, voter suppression, the block to investigating BP after the oil spill, and the government shutdown was the fault of Democrats even though their own leaders tell us they did it and it worked.

Then entire world laughs at them. Even though their party is 90% white, they believe they are the party of diversity.

You simply can't get anymore ignorant than right wing Republicans. When they said they didn't want their children to be taught critical thinking skills, they needn't have worried. That's something they will never learn from other Republicans.

I may not be intellectually superior to a lot of educated liberals, but I am smarter than all liberals combined just because they support obama and his failed policies.

Spits a Bush voter.

nothing will ever be worse than a dumb ass obama supporter. even the creators of obamacare think yall are stupid.

That's ok, I don't expect a Bush voter to know they are even dumber than the dumbest Obama voter. That's testament to how ignorant Bush voters are.

 

[Mac1958]

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I've known "smart" people who were essentially worthless, or worse.

I've known "dumb" people with whom I could trust just about anything.

Silly stuff.

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