vicepope said:

But he never was a conservative and no one believes that he was.

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Enlil said:

vicepope said:

But he never was a conservative and no one believes that he was.

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That's my point.  Stupid people voted for trump because he's stupid and they saw themselves in him.  They think, "finally someone who sees things like I do."

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AlChemicalResearch said:

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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Conservatives have more diversity of thought than liberals.

https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjso.12665

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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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Conservatives have higher IQ than liberals.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0160289614001081

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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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https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9548663/

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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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https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337447370_Smart_and_Poor_or_Rich_and_Dull_A_US_County-Level_Analysis_of_the_Relationship_between_IQ_and_Presidential-_Election_Voting_Behavior

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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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It used to be the other way around, but the democrats/liberals of the last 10 years really went off the deep end trying to end the Occupy Wall Street movement and save the banks.

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AlChemicalResearch said:

Conservatives have higher IQ than liberals.

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Haha. Hahaha. Hahahahahahahahaha.