Reply #44: we're not snobs [View All]

[amazona]

Conservatives are just not as intelligent on average than liberals. I believe there was a study to that effect just released, but we already know it from day to day experience. Less intelligent people have less ability to develop the emotional intelligence and the range of imagination needed to have empathy for other people. When an injustice happens to someone else, the person with a wider imagination can't help but feel a twinge of, There but for the Grace of God go I. Whereas the stupid person of limited imagination can't possibly picture such a thing happening to them, so they shrug it off. They don't see where they would need rights and protections because they don't think they need them until it's too late.

This is something that is in the nature of things and is never going to change. There will always be people of greater and lesser ability to think and to empathize. We can "study ourselves" all we like, we are not going to change the laws of gravity or human nature.


This is a generalization, of course, I realize that. There are liberals who don't strike me as having very much upstairs, say, Prince Charles so I don't pick on any Americans. But, let's be honest. For every stupid liberal, we can name whole boatloads of stupid conservatives.

I don't see how blaming ourselves for their lack is going to help matters any.

On edit-- I guess on re-reading this message, it sounds kinda snobby. But I don't think it is snobby to acknowledge if you are actually superior.