If you're fool enough to think DJT is anything other than a degenerate, hedonistic serial rapist, you deserve to be looked down upon. The single biggest reason he was able to take hold of the Republican party is because of the IQ gap between left and right.
What is out of the ordinary is in 2016 Trump garnered votes from folk who only voted Republican in the past in landslide years. In 2024 he had both cultural and economic reasons working for him.
DJT isn't a serial rapist. He is our good president. The Right, and the right, aren't stupid. But I'm just another degenerate, low-IQ deplorable so what do I know.
They are provably more stupid. That doesn't necessarily mean they're wrong always or even most of the time, but they are statistically more stupid. Their politicians certainly are. The left is admittedly only barely less stupid.
All my averagely intelligent, academic proper thinking acquaintances are Liberal. All my really smart friends, 140 IQ and up, every single one, other than one, is solidly right. All see Trump as the only rational choice. The one that isn’t agrees in principle with every right wing position but is terrified of saying it out loud in case anyone finds out. He is utterly a coward. He has a personality disorder. He lives in fear. It rules him. I call the averagely, slightly above 110 IQ types, all of whom did well in school, the ‘dreaded 120 IQers’. They memorize well. They are adept socially so they excelled at school. But they are shtupid. Dumb as rocks. Their perks come from fitting in and rising to the top, because they are a step smarter than the average. But these skills stopped them from learning how to think. The average Joe type knows full well the organized part of society, government/NGOs/bureaucracy are not their friends. They rely on experience and common sense. By the time they hit about 40 years of age, assuming no alcoholism etc, they are miles ahead of their slightly smarter counterparts. Because they know how to make a decision. Most of them become much wealthier too. They find the big org left abhorrent. Big Left NEVER helps them. They vote right. Not from stupidity, but from experience and self interest. If you run a plumbing company the Bureaucracy burdens you, the Gov constantly pulls the rug out from under, and so on. No one is on your side. Big Left appeals to group oriented people. The Org people.
I don't believe you, partially because I don't think you know what your acquaintances IQs are, and even if you did, I wouldn't care about what they believe if the only thing they had in their lives were their high IQs. I can only apologize for not reading the rest of your comment when it had such a dogshit opening few sentences.
I am estimating. These are not your averagely bright people. And in the case of my son I do know his IQ. 176. I know mine. And i have some over the top brilliant friends who are so smart they are hard to talk to. Some are very successful. Some are somewhat. But someone above brought up the IQ gap between right and left. It isn’t my experience. My very smart friends are all right. My middle smart are left. My average types who are competent are all right. My average smart, probably weren’t great in school are generally far more successful than
The Right's politicians are more stupid because they're slow to catch on to and adopt the corrupt MO so long ingrained in those of the left? Trump's sweep of this election was largely due to finally having two very smart, adept people running his campaign who were also able to reign him in more successfully than their predecessors. So, what did they do? Largely, what the Dems have been doing openly the last two election cycles and more covertly prior.....FINALLY! And, it worked. So, at least we know we're capable of learning....FINALLY!
I don’t take the IQ gap as proven. The Left _has_ not proved its claim to be the “reality based community”, either.
It would help if the Democrats did not cheer for and abet the Republican candidates most likely to lose the general election, or govern badly if they do win.
DJT was deemed to be the most likely nominee to lose to HRC. Only, he didn’t. They can’t forgive him for that. They also want him as an albatross to hang from the neck of the Republican party.
Ah yes, it was the Democrats who immediately vaulted Trump to the top of the GOP primary polls in 2015, a position he held for almost the entirety of the contest. Republicans and right wing media have no agency. Just Democrats.
This kind of lazy thinking is exactly what the article is about, the kind of thinking that makes the right feel smart by denigrating the social sciences.
Poor Sam will have to live without the love of people he looks down upon.
If you're fool enough to think DJT is anything other than a degenerate, hedonistic serial rapist, you deserve to be looked down upon. The single biggest reason he was able to take hold of the Republican party is because of the IQ gap between left and right.
The tragedy of US politics is that Trump is bad and his opponents are worse. Trump got the votes he did for cultural reasons.
https://www.brookings.edu/books/trumps-democrats/
"Trump got the votes he did for cultural reasons."
You think that's out-of-the-ordinary?
What is out of the ordinary is in 2016 Trump garnered votes from folk who only voted Republican in the past in landslide years. In 2024 he had both cultural and economic reasons working for him.
https://www.lorenzofromoz.net/p/a-unified-theory-of-trump-derangement
>degenerate, hedonistic serial rapist
Most of these adjectives are just hollow, poorly defined emotional charges, so I won't be asking about that, but you got me interested with the noun.
Would you mind making your case as to why you think Trump is a rapist?
DJT isn't a serial rapist. He is our good president. The Right, and the right, aren't stupid. But I'm just another degenerate, low-IQ deplorable so what do I know.
They are provably more stupid. That doesn't necessarily mean they're wrong always or even most of the time, but they are statistically more stupid. Their politicians certainly are. The left is admittedly only barely less stupid.
All my averagely intelligent, academic proper thinking acquaintances are Liberal. All my really smart friends, 140 IQ and up, every single one, other than one, is solidly right. All see Trump as the only rational choice. The one that isn’t agrees in principle with every right wing position but is terrified of saying it out loud in case anyone finds out. He is utterly a coward. He has a personality disorder. He lives in fear. It rules him. I call the averagely, slightly above 110 IQ types, all of whom did well in school, the ‘dreaded 120 IQers’. They memorize well. They are adept socially so they excelled at school. But they are shtupid. Dumb as rocks. Their perks come from fitting in and rising to the top, because they are a step smarter than the average. But these skills stopped them from learning how to think. The average Joe type knows full well the organized part of society, government/NGOs/bureaucracy are not their friends. They rely on experience and common sense. By the time they hit about 40 years of age, assuming no alcoholism etc, they are miles ahead of their slightly smarter counterparts. Because they know how to make a decision. Most of them become much wealthier too. They find the big org left abhorrent. Big Left NEVER helps them. They vote right. Not from stupidity, but from experience and self interest. If you run a plumbing company the Bureaucracy burdens you, the Gov constantly pulls the rug out from under, and so on. No one is on your side. Big Left appeals to group oriented people. The Org people.
I don't believe you, partially because I don't think you know what your acquaintances IQs are, and even if you did, I wouldn't care about what they believe if the only thing they had in their lives were their high IQs. I can only apologize for not reading the rest of your comment when it had such a dogshit opening few sentences.
I am estimating. These are not your averagely bright people. And in the case of my son I do know his IQ. 176. I know mine. And i have some over the top brilliant friends who are so smart they are hard to talk to. Some are very successful. Some are somewhat. But someone above brought up the IQ gap between right and left. It isn’t my experience. My very smart friends are all right. My middle smart are left. My average types who are competent are all right. My average smart, probably weren’t great in school are generally far more successful than
…than the mid wit low
Level academic, bureaucrat, credentialed sorts.
The Right's politicians are more stupid because they're slow to catch on to and adopt the corrupt MO so long ingrained in those of the left? Trump's sweep of this election was largely due to finally having two very smart, adept people running his campaign who were also able to reign him in more successfully than their predecessors. So, what did they do? Largely, what the Dems have been doing openly the last two election cycles and more covertly prior.....FINALLY! And, it worked. So, at least we know we're capable of learning....FINALLY!
I don’t take the IQ gap as proven. The Left _has_ not proved its claim to be the “reality based community”, either.
It would help if the Democrats did not cheer for and abet the Republican candidates most likely to lose the general election, or govern badly if they do win.
DJT was deemed to be the most likely nominee to lose to HRC. Only, he didn’t. They can’t forgive him for that. They also want him as an albatross to hang from the neck of the Republican party.
Ah yes, it was the Democrats who immediately vaulted Trump to the top of the GOP primary polls in 2015, a position he held for almost the entirety of the contest. Republicans and right wing media have no agency. Just Democrats.
This kind of lazy thinking is exactly what the article is about, the kind of thinking that makes the right feel smart by denigrating the social sciences.
I didn’t say they got him the nomination. They were definitely cheering for him. They certainly didn’t put him in office.
Don’t cheer for the weakest candidate on the other side.
The social sciences are a mess. Have you ever tried looking at Daniel Moynihan's scholarship? It all goes downhill starting there.