Conservatives are less intelligent than liberals.
This is nothing new, but it bears repeating. The Left, quite simply, consider themselves superior in intellect to everyone else. If we would just acknowledge this obvious fact, and do what they tell us to do, then all the world's problems will be solved and we'll be living in a paradise on earth.
And this leads to a wondrous contradiction. You see, the paradise the Left wants to create is a *Socialist* paradise. It would be a classless society where everyone is equal (regardless of their merit). Except for the elite leadership, of course. After all, the rest of us are so stupid that we can't take care of ourselves without help from our benevolent masters and the overarching government that they run. (For an extrapolation of this to an extreme case, I refer you to the wonderful short story by Kurt Vonnegut, "Harrison Bergeron.")
In short, they want a classless society where they are the ruling class. Make sense?
Yes, it's a gross simplification, but that doesn't make the point invalid.
I don't consider liberals to be less intelligent than I am. Naive, perhaps, and prone to let emotion rule their thoughts, but not stupid. You see, there's a difference between intelligence and wisdom. Intelligence is what you know and your capability of learning new things. Wisdom is the ability to use your intelligence effectively. That's not to say that you can't be wise and a liberal. One of the smartest people I know, who has a great deal of real world wisdom, is rather liberal in his political views and we have had many interesting conversations. He definitely keeps me on my toes.
I consider myself a conservative/libertarian. For those that believe that conservatives are less intelligent, I have a couple of responses:
- I am 35 years old (today's my birthday), I have a degree in Math/Computer Science, I work for a major software company making good money, I own a house, a car (2002 Subaru 2.5 RS), and a motorcycle (2001 Kawasaki Vulcan Nomad, a big bike), and I pay for it all out of my own salary as I'm not married. Would a stupid person have that kind of success? Would anyone have that kind of success in the Socialist utopia?
- Ever notice how, the older someone is, the more likely they are to be conservative? If we posit that with age comes wisdom, this implies that, the wiser you are, the more likely you are to be conservative.
- Would a stupid person be able to assemble as complex, yet grammatically correct, a sentence as the previous one, not to mention the first sentence of my first response above?
