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So this is how democracy dies ... (files.mastodon.online)

submitted 9 months ago by freamon to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

That leverage doesn't exist when the majority of Americans have an IQ under 95.

Edit: in case the downvoters think i'm just being crass and elitist, the US has a relatively lower IQ score than the rest of the developed world and the average global IQ by definition is 100. I bring up cognitive intelligence scores as a means of illustrating that your average voter in the US doesn't or can't comprehend warring political ideologies and the implications a 2nd Trump presidency will have, as illustrated by working class folks continually voting R.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

You cheapen and undermine your argument when you start talking about IQ like that, it conflates some arbitrary measure of intelligence with politics and ideology which has nothing to do with intelligence. Plenty of people who are absurdly booksmart with super high IQs are complete rightwing nutjobs or believe in utterly ridiculous bullshit conspiracy theories that drive their politics.

The cancer is in our cultural belief systems (and alarming lack of empathy as a grounding value) not our brains.