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As a conservative, I?ll be the first to admit that your average liberal is more intelligent than your average conservative. But, you have to ask why? There is a long tradition and romanticism around the liberal intellectual. Conservatives, conversely, tend to be lean more towards pragmatism and the tangible. This is why you?ll find more liberals in academia, and more conservatives in business. Those who fancy themselves as intellectuals are far more likely to ascribe to liberalism than conservatism because that?s where they?ll feel at home.
That?s not to say that there aren?t conservative intellectuals. There is a strong tradition of conservative intellectuals. Individuals like Milton Friedman, Thomas Sowell, Dinesh D'Souza, William F. Buckley, Jr., Ayn Rand, Norman Podhoretz, Bill Kristol, David Horowitz, and Daniel Pipes all immediately come to mind.
Moreover, you?ve got yahoos like Serge_Oprano who purport to be conservative and patriotic, but don?t really know the first thing about conservative philosophy and come across as complete idiots. The equivalent of Serge on the left is equally ignorant, but because the liberals outlook is rooted in socialist doctrine associated with the intellectual elite, people mistake them for being more intelligent than they actually are.
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