why do right-wingers put down intelligence, intellectuals, well-travelled and educated people all the time?
355128
Because they are jealous! Right-wingers (or repubs) are generally far less educated and less intellegent than the average liberal (left wingers). Repubs are very narrow sighted and look at things in black and white vision. Therefore they insult everything and everyone smarter and more sophisticated than themselves to make themselves feel more important than the stupid uneducated narrow minded folk that they are. Just like a bully in the third grade who is too dumb to know any better.
1096078
Because they are too lazy to come up with any real plans, so they get comfort in their paranoid conspiracy theories,  and silly bleeding heart ideas.  \n\nMost of them wear tin foil hats when they sleep to keep the space aliens from reading their thoughts.  \n\n( VOTE REPUBLICAN )
1087102
Its not ... Conservatives think everything is left-wing biased and Liberals think everything is right-wing biased ... the simple fact is that humans are incapable of presenting facts in a completely objective way ... thank god some of us have the intellectual ability to develop our own opinions.
208202
BECAUSE LIBERALISM CLOUDS THE LEFT WING KOOKS BRAINS UP SO MUCH THAT THEY THINK UP STUPID THINGS
327507
1. young people are less wise, perhaps, because they lack experience. This isn't the same as intelligence. A lot of older people bypass wisdom and just get jaded instead.\n\n2. Political beliefs are based on any number of things, and, as you've noticed, listening to political debates of late, wisdom isn't always a feature. There are stupid liberals and stupid conservatives. There are also some very clever liberals.\n\n3. That's not what allegorical means.
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Comes from the age old bell curve of society. All societies naturally strive for civilization. This is generally where the "5%" rule came in to play. The thinkers, doers, and other leaders generally amounted to about 5% of the over all population. This generates a bell curve, pulled up in the center by the three "C's", Centralist Common sense Conservatism. Half way down the curve on the right would then be the over conservatives as half way down on the left would be the moderates. At the bottom of the curve on the right were the extreme conservatives and at the bottom left, the liberals. Half way out the right wing are the ultra conservatives, (some call them neo-cons) and half way out the left wing, the progressive liberals. The two ends are where you find the fanatics, the religious fanatics on the far right and the atheists on the far left. Over time, in most countries, the conservatives are to the right and the labor party liberals to the left. When the curve slips too far one way or the other, the society generly falls. History shows this with the early Greeks, the Romans and even the Neanderthals.
677569
intelligent people without their head up their ^$$
1046931
Because such people did not have the chance to receive a proper education. It is easier to be the agressor because you think you control the agenda.
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most people are here already apart from the right wing fanatics who are on the other side anyway ,this is their ball game.\neven though their lower ranks have no Idea of what the top of the piramid is up too\n\nwww.infowars ,biggest secret,by David Icke traces the control well into the dawn of history .\n\nthese things you talk about are part of long term strategies ,that plan and are operative over many centuries ,most people cannot grasp political climates for more than a few years at the time,\ndont get confused or caught up in what is happening in front of your eyes ,or you will not be able to see the wood for the trees.\n\nyou have to distance yourself and have a wider vieuw spanning eons, not just present day atrocities \nand realise the power that lies behind, for all of it for all of known time\n\n try to ask a shorter question,\n instead of writing a book \nthe question gets lost in the statements
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Do you think that the truly intelligent people are the ones that are not satisfied with the level of learning they have achieved, and are constantly trying to find ways to learn more?  And don't spend their time talking about how much smarter they are than everyone else?  : )
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It's always easier to associate someone that you disagree with, using some derogatory term rather than have an intellectual discussion.\n\nIt doesn't matter which side your on or what the issue is.
825569
Because the extremeists are the ones who get all fired up over political issues. The rest of us have a life.
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Start with the fact that really front edge bright and well-educated people don't do this. Nice uneducated ones don't either. Take those two groups away, and what you have is the base of yahoo answers political boards.\n\nThe reason some people do it, the mean ones, is to feel better. It's release to call someone an idiot on a big loudspeaker from behind a curtain where you'll never be seen or called to account for your comments. It's exactly like prank calls or vandalism. Messing with people by remote control.\n\nThe reason a lot of other people do it -- call them middle brow users -- is because once you pigeonhole and demonize a group with a stereotype, they are in a tidy box, and you don't have to bother with trying to see things from their point of view anymore.  Instead, you just kneejerk "oh, it's the Nabobs", and you're done with it. It's intellectual laziness. But sometimes the way a middlebrow goes about it is superficially clever, and indicative of the fact they aren't 100% dummies, at very least. They have some sort of language skills and ability to entertain, if not great insight. If you think about it, that's what a lot of radio talk """pundits""" have too: superficial verbal agility, with no real insight.\n\nBut whoever does it, it's not useful, and ultimately damaging to the public dialog on issues.
945148
The Republican Party has acquired the same attitude most right wing political groups throughout recent history. The Nazi Socialist Party of Pre-war Germany, The right wing fascists of Italy and South America all expressed the jingoistic rhetoric so familiar to the "Family Values" the Republicans have pushed their agenda with for the last six years. They firmly believe that they know what is best for the rest of the people of their country and even the world. They do not try to take into account the knowledge of others, particularly educated people who make it their careers to know these things. They are so convinced that they know what the people need that they will not, and do not take the opinions of others into account, regardless of the expertise of these "other" people. If that is not the earmark of an aristocracy then what is. No matter what you call it, these people have pushed their agenda on the rest of us so often and for so long that it is a fearful thing to see them gain power again, because they will once again try to impose their twisted outlook onto the political scene and drive this country into another effort to resist change. Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Pearl some of the early archetects of the the Republican Neo-Conservative movement expressed that they needed an incident similar to Pearl Harbor (therefore, the 9/11 incident ) to give us the opportunity to bring the Country (USA) in the direction we want it to go. They wrote that 16 yeaars before 9/11. The definition of Time is "the measure of change." Change is inevitable in the nature of things. To fight it is futile. The dinosaurs, and 99% of all species that have ever existed have passed from the reality of existence because they could not adapt. Man is not exempt from that equastion. Liberalism is simply an expression that all the answers are not known. Therefore, trying to adapt to the changing political environment.is imperative, and trying to understand new aspects of the worlds' behavior is a constant part of a politician's responsibility. Failure is an option, it is always an option in politics. learning from failure is a large part of life itself. We must be willing to look for our answers among the peoples of the world. It might not be the best solution for us at this time but it might be the best when looked at in the context of the whole world. We are 5% of the population of the world using 30% of its resouses, how long can that last?.Instead we find the arrogance of the aristioracy constantly trying to halt the march of the political fortunes of the world and force it into its own perception of what is to be. This has driven us to enter into war with Iraq.with an ending that is nothing less then the outcome of the Viet Nam conflict. Total failure! They have not learned even the simplist lessons that cost us the lives of 58,219 of America's finest. Talk to those brave men and women and ask them if the current Republicans are not an aristocrocy.
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Maybe because they listen to the spew of the media without knowing truly about what really happens. Maybe because they would rather follow an agenda than use some common sense. Maybe because they are so willing to buy into anything that supports their uninformed opinion based on little real life experience.\n\nWho knows why the liberals are like they are.
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The liberal guys are all hot because they're gay.  I've never met a smart liberal but, then again, they may be smart when compared to you.\n\nConservatives have better things to do than stare in the mirror or try to impress air-headed girls like you.  We're more than happy to have you hanging out with the liberal guys.  Please stay there.\n\nAnd while you're all hanging around being hot, why don't you all discuss why liberals refuse to allow those in poverty to better themselves and, instead, continue to try to keep them in poverty?  Whereas conservatives would like to give people in poverty the tools to help themselves permanently out of poverty, you liberals just want to give them handouts.  You liberals have been promising to help the impoverished for 40 years now.  40 years of failure.  But I guess spending your time insulting conservatives will help those in poverty.  Good work.
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The problem is not lack of intelligence. Intelligent, proactive and interested politicians are pushed out before they get too far up the ladder.