lifeiswhatyoumake said:

W-w-w-why?

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Brian Jones said:

You must have meant first time voting in a midterm.

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OutsideOfMyMind said:

So this will be the first time I will be voting in a primary and I will be voting all Democrats because Texas needs to get these fucking Republicans out of here who are keeping horrible backwards laws on the books for no reason and they keep going back and forth with fucking weed and THC. Texas needs to just fucking legalize it like what literally more than half the other states have done already.

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You want to go where its legalize then move.  I presume your over 20 years old so you complaining about your first time voting while hating your state leaders is weak sauce.

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gww said:

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You want to go where its legalize then move.  I presume your over 20 years old so you complaining about your first time voting while hating your state leaders is weak sauce.

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The Ideal of politics it to make where you live a better place.  Moving is stupid when there is a better way.

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gww said:

People should do what they want.  I know people that moved to Colorado when they retired and others to Florida.  You could not make the claim that those places had the same good thing that made people move there politically.

Making People stay in a shit hole is wrong too.  How far to you take your immigration argument? You could break it down further and say blacks have to stay in black neighborhoods and asians need to live in china town and work to make those places better (I am not saying they are bad or worse then where I live).


All places have problems of some kind.  People should do what they want, when they want and not have people telling them if you don't like it move or that you have to stay.  Politics is a way to try and garner support to fix problems.

You might worry more about your choices then spend so much time making choices for others.

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Enlil said:

Trump's base is stupid people.  More conservatives are stupid than liberals, so that's why people think he's conservative.

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According to the present findings, Democrats (more than Republicans) tightly centre their belief-system around a set of positions at the extremes of these particular items, implying that people who deviate from these positions are likely to be considered as outgroup members (extremity should thereby be understood as a function of both, the formulation of the item and the response). It is possible that holding extreme (and thus unnegotiable) attitudes on important social-political issues has become increasingly identity defining for Democrats, not least in response to Donald Trump’s controversial presidency.

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Individuals who identify as Republican have greater probability knowledge
•Individuals who identify as Republican have higher verbal reasoning ability
•Individuals who identify as Republican have better question comprehension
•Cognitive ability’s effect on party identity works through socio-economic position

Carl (2014) analysed data from the U.S. General Social Survey (GSS), and found that individuals who identify as Republican have slightly higher verbal intelligence than those who identify as Democrat.In all three cases, individuals who identify as Republican score slightly higher than those who identify as Democrat; the unadjusted differences are 1–3 IQ points, 2–4 IQ points and 2–3 IQ points, respectively. Path analyses indicate that the associations between cognitive ability and party identity are largely but not totally accounted for by socio-economic position: individuals with higher cognitive ability tend to have better socio-economic positions, and individuals with better socio-economic positions are more likely to identify as Republican. These results are consistent with Carl's (2014) hypothesis that higher intelligence among classically liberal Republicans compensates for lower intelligence among socially conservative Republicans.

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Evidence on the association of cognitive ability with economic attitudes is mixed. We conducted a meta-analysis (k = 20, N = 46,426) to examine the relationship between objective measures of cognitive ability and economic ideology and analyzed survey data (N = 3,375) to test theoretical explanations for the association. The meta-analysis provided evidence for a small positive association with a weighted mean effect size of r = .07 (95% CI = [0.02, 0.12]), suggesting that higher cognitive ability is associated with conservative views on economic issues, but effect sizes were extremely heterogeneous. Tests using representative survey data provided support for both a positive association of cognitive ability with economic conservatism that is mediated through income as well as for a negative association that is mediated through a higher need for certainty

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With U.S. state-level data, IQ scores positively predict votes cast for Democrats, but only when controlling for state racial composition. Here, however, we explore the relationship between IQ and voting behavior at the level of U.S. counties (approx. n = 3,100). We find that county-level IQ weakly predicts more votes cast for Republicans (r's .07 to .13) and less votes cast for Democrats (r's-.10 to-.14). These small relationships are also found in multiple regression analyses, even when demographic data, social status, and population density appear as covariates (3-4% points more votes cast for Republicans per standard deviation of IQ). The effect of general social status was opposite that of intelligence (6-9% points less votes cast for Republicans per standard deviation of social status), which is surprising considering the very strong positive correlation (r = .77) between IQ and social status. Additionally, racial homogeneity by itself predicts voting Republican; however, when other variables are present in the regression model, homogeneity predicts voting Democrat.

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