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| How does the BDS wing of the party compare in intelligence to the moderates? |
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"At a highly distinguished university where plagiarism is viewed as not so terrible unless made public." |
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| But I was very liberal in my younger days, and now have turned moderately conservative. I guess I got dumber? |
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That’s been my experience with old people |
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Sorry about your family genetics. Not the case.in my family unless experiencing dementia in their 90s. |
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I get being rich and voting Republican. I’m loaded. I would vote for a pro-choice, socially liberal Republican, but I can’t get behind what you guys are offering. Your party has been perverted by weirdo fundies and low intelligence idiots. It’s annoying. If Hogan was pro-choice I would vote for him, but no, you guys want red meat MJT types, so nope. Not getting my vote. |
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| I want candidates who think crime and illegal immigration are bad, guns for all is bad, drugs are bad, mental health needs funding and intervention, abortion is a fundamental woman's right and part of general healthcare, healthcare itself is a right and should be equal for all in cost and access, preserving social security is vital. Who is that? It's not Biden who is not for universal healthcare or proper immigration control. |
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You got numb in your comfy box, more selfish and transactional, less empathetic and curious. You lost the idealism of youth and became what you once despised. It’s the tragedy of living a privileged life. |
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As my children say, their grandparents are kind of mean. |
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Or they realized that they work hard and don’t want to just outlay the majority of their 401k in taxes for programs for inner city kids whose parents aren’t around to stop them from car jacking? I’m liberal, but I get the annoyance with a lot of progressive policy these days. A lot of it is done to weaken strong on crime policy or to water down education by making everything, like getting the right answer or taking tests, optional. |
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Probably not just that. I remember an interesting interview with some kind of social/psychology/neurology scientist years ago--as people get older they tend to feel more anxiety (not exactly the right word) about maintaining what is familiar. Stuff that is "other" and unfamiliar tends to be experienced as more threatening. They depend more on the familiar to protect them. Sure there are exceptions, but probably exceptions that provide the rule--if all grannies and grandpas were taking up crazy adventures it wouldn't be a story when they do. Hanging on to privilege may be a part of it, but there may also be a process that is more common to humanity. Aristotle said youth are passionate and idealistic, the aged are grumpy: "According to Aristotle, the young have strong but changeable passions. They are quick tempered and lacking in self-control, and this makes them all the more likely to yield to their passions. They are eager for superiority and easily feel slighted. They love honour and victory more than money, and would rather do noble deeds than useful ones. As the greater part of their life lies before them, they live more in expectation than in memory; and as they are lacking in experience, they have exalted notions and tend to see the good rather than the bad. Although they are confident and courageous, they are still accepting of the rules of their society; and although they like spending their days with others, they have not yet learned to value their friends for their usefulness. They are quick to pity because they think that everyone is honest. If they wrong others, this is more to insult than to do real harm. As they are fond of fun, they are witty – wit being nothing other than well-bred insolence. They think they know everything and so they overdo everything. This is the source of all their mistakes. In contrast to the young, the elderly live by memory rather than by hope. As they have a lot of experience, they are sure about nothing and under-do everything. They are small-minded because they have been humbled by life. As a result, they are driven too much by the useful and not enough by the noble. They are cynical and distrustful and neither love warmly nor hate bitterly. They are not shy but rather shameless, and feel only contempt for people’s opinion of them. As that which is desired most strongly is that which is needed most urgently, they love life, and all the more when their last day has arrived." |
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You said the same thing just from the selfish a-hole point of view. Moderate conservative is code for “I’ve got mine now cut my taxes and f everyone else.” |
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I think the IQ thing is simple. I think intelligence equates to being more curious about phenomena in general, including social and political phenomena and being more likely to explore the complex aspects of social and political issues. I also think that opens one to empathy.
There are certainly knee-jerk left-wingers as well as right-wingers who don't spend a lot of mental energy challenging their own assumptions, but by and large (IMO) rw kneejerk extremism has a more dominant presence in our society generally, especially these days (not to mention the promotion it gets from the rw evangelicals--progressive and moderate evangelicals, who do exist, are very marginalized now) . LW knee-jerk thinking is also much more limited to younger adults while the RW version shows up across age groups. |
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By the time the vaccine was developed Covid HAD spread everywhere. Nobody said it would prevent it. The expectation was primarily that it would lessen disease risk for the vaccinated and lessen transmissability, both of which were true. For the fast majority of people, NOT taking the vaccine was a much more serious health risk than taking it. |