So I had to take an IQ test recently. Was being told that there is a correlation between politics and IQ. Specifically I was told that higher IQ is associated with Leftism.
That smells like woke bullshit.
Got my score, and had a little moment of smug delight because my score was surprisingly high. And it got me thinking:
I bet if everyone on this site took an IQ test and we averaged the scores, we would find that Patriots are just fucking smarter. I also bet that if you took a similar cross section of liberals and did the same, they would be significantly below average.
I just cannot believe that “let’s smash that storefront and take shit, they have insurance” and “wealth redistribution is sustainable” can possible make sense to a high functioning mind.
Rant over.
My hypothesis is that the people in the average IQ-range (around 90-130) tend to be economic idealists (either communist or libertarian), culturally secular/liberal and anti-racists (out-group preference) when it comes to identity politics, believing in and zealously defending the fraud of civic nationalism.
The people in the extremes tend to be more right-wing: the stupid because they don't understand deception and the geniuses because they can better discern truth from falsehoods. The people with very high IQs (150+) tend to be pro-nationalism and pro-Christianity, when they are losers. When they are at the top of society, they use the left to destroy others with similar IQs.
That being said, there are many well-educated people with high IQs these days who are functionally illiterate. Nobody reads. They play video games and watch pornography instead. It's a spiritual problem affecting the whole population. The distractions are everywhere and it takes a whole lot of effort just to avoid them.
I think you are probably right. The very high IQ people you have classified sound more like sociopaths tho. I just think that sociopaths tend to achieve higher positions of power and influence due to their lack of empathy.
They definitely do in the West, because the system was designed to be a wickedocracy. Our system rewards parasitism. It's a feature of financial capitalism. But it's not a universal fact of life. Putin probably has an IQ in the 160 range, if not higher. And he does a fine job of keeping the parasites away from Russia.
mmm i don't know if i agree with that one there... Putin is just the biggest parasite and eats all the other ones