Why do smart, educated people vote Democrat and intellectual retards vote Republican?

[Dixon Carter Lee]

As long as we're pigeonholing...

 

[phrodeau]

Same reason that all members of the Unicorn Party are unicorns.

 

[KRCummings]

Lately it's been looking like both are pretty fuckin' stupid.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Let's check their SAT scores...

Nope.

 

[thør]

Lately it's been looking like both are pretty fuckin' stupid.

I owe you a beer for this one.

 

[chillywilly2]

Lately it's been looking like both are pretty fuckin' stupid.

yep, like Twin clusterfucks

 

[KRCummings]

Let's check their SAT scores...

Nope.

Dont' you know? Everyone here scored 2400 on their SAT's.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Dont' you know? Everyone here scored 2400 on their SAT's.

Nu-uh. I got a hundred!

 

[Myrrdin]

Why do smart, educated people vote Democrat and intellectual retards vote Republican? Reply to Thread

It's your hereditary class system.

 

[StormCat]

Actually he is right. Stats show that the more educated you are (in terms of diplomas) you are more likely to vote Democrat. On the flip side, the less educated you are, the more likely you are to vote Democrat.

He is speaking the truth somewhat.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Actually he is right. Stats show that the more educated you are (in terms of diplomas) you are more likely to vote Democrat. On the flip side, the less educated you are, the more likely you are to vote Democrat.

He is speaking the truth somewhat.

We know.

It's still a swell parody thread.

 

[KRCummings]

We know.

It's still a swell parody thread.

I don't know if I'd say it was swell. Neato maybe. Possibly nifty.

 

[StormCat]

I know, i saw the other stupid thread. There is truth to what you say though.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

I know, i saw the other stupid thread. There is truth to what you say though.

That's what makes good satire.

That, and seltzer water.

 

[phrodeau]

Actually he is right. Stats show that the more educated you are (in terms of diplomas) you are more likely to vote Democrat. On the flip side, the less educated you are, the more likely you are to vote Democrat.

He is speaking the truth somewhat.

Um… huh?

Are you saying that the Democrats are only "more or less" educated?

 

[Powertone]

As long as we're pigeonholing...

yeah the nutjob rioting demonstrators in St Paul who'll surely vote for Obama in November are fucking scholars

 

[hogjack]

yeah the nutjob rioting demonstrators in St Paul who'll surely vote for Obama in November are fucking scholars

One million monkeys with keyboards are registered under a single name: semen4her.

 

[KRCummings]

One million monkeys with keyboards are registered under a single name: semen4her.

I don't know. I'm pretty sure semen4her is never going to write Shakespeare.

 

[hogjack]

I don't know. I'm pretty sure semen4her is never going to write Shakespeare.

We're not even sure Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare.

My bet is on Queen Elizabeth I, a delightfully talented minx.

To be honest without the scholarly translations I wouldn't understand the
Shakespearean dialogue much better than any of the million monkeys.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Here's one explanation, from a 2003 psychological study:

A study funded by the US government has concluded that conservatism can be explained psychologically as a set of neuroses rooted in "fear and aggression, dogmatism and the intolerance of ambiguity".

As if that was not enough to get Republican blood boiling, the report's four authors linked Hitler, Mussolini, Ronald Reagan and the rightwing talkshow host, Rush Limbaugh, arguing they all suffered from the same affliction.

All of them "preached a return to an idealised past and condoned inequality".

Republicans are demanding to know why the psychologists behind the report, Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition, received $1.2m in public funds for their research from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.

The authors also peer into the psyche of President George Bush, who turns out to be a textbook case. The telltale signs are his preference for moral certainty and frequently expressed dislike of nuance.

"This intolerance of ambiguity can lead people to cling to the familiar, to arrive at premature conclusions, and to impose simplistic cliches and stereotypes," the authors argue in the Psychological Bulletin.

One of the psychologists behind the study, Jack Glaser, said the aversion to shades of grey and the need for "closure" could explain the fact that the Bush administration ignored intelligence that contradicted its beliefs about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.

 

[StormCat]

Um… huh?

Are you saying that the Democrats are only "more or less" educated?

Im saying they are both. According to those who have applied to vote and what degrees they have, if you have a Ph. D. you are more likely to vote Democratic. Also, if you have a high school diploma (and thats it) you are more likely to vote Democratic. The reasons for this, I think, are pretty obvious.

 

[hogjack]

pigeonholing...

Like those little teases weren't askin' for it.

 

[pinkstarfish]

I don't know. I'm pretty sure semen4her is never going to write Shakespeare.

Tee hee

 

[paganangel]

60% of this country borders on retarded (and i don't mean canada). they aren't all pub... or dem ... or right or left. it's not how people vote, it's the reasoning behind it.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

60% of this country borders on retarded (and i don't mean canada). they aren't all pub... or dem ... or right or left. it's not how people vote, it's the reasoning behind it.

Got a link to those stats?

You can't swing a dead cat without hitting a link to mine.