| ADL Colin |
01-21-2008 04:51 AM |
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Originally Posted by Xplicit
(Post 13674986)
His support is from the intelligent minority, the %10 of people who don't believe everything they hear and come to their own conclusions and follow the news and politics closely enough to figure out on their own that we're being scammed.
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Everyone I know, from every political affiliation thinks they arrive at their opinions independently and from carefully reasoned independent thinking. Many seem to think that other groups - however categorized - don't. That "they" are the brainwashed "victims of mass-media". "WE are the smart ones", we say. Of course.
I know we all like to associate with groups of people who are more intelligent, better looking and more successful than others but ...
I haven't seen a shred of evidence that Ron Paul supporters are more intelligent than any other politician's group of supporters. I've read the Ron Paul forums over the past few months and seen every kind of bizarre conspiracy theory against Paul imaginable. "Everyone is out to get us". I haven't read anything that would lead me to think, "wow, these people are SO SMART".
I am not in any way saying they are less intelligent. Just where is the evidence that they are from the "intelligent 10% elite"?
The observable qualities in common from Ron Paul supporters are that they are young, independent and anti-establishment.
One might argue - and I won't - that Ron Paul supporters are the kind of people easily attracted to anti-establishment "revolutions". The kind of people who believe they will change the world if they just try hard enough. That "we" are better than "them". That "we" are smarter than "them". That "we" have it all figured out and that "they" don't. "We" will succeed. "They" will fail. Now what so intelligent (top 10%) about all that?
Nearly every Ron Paul supporter I have met thought Paul had a legitimate chance of winning the nomination before the primaries. A very failed test of understanding how things work.
It is possible that Paul's supporters are young intellectuals on average but less wise due to age. Again, I don't know. I haven't seen any demographics that would support that and certainly it is not possible to figure out.
Taking IQ as a proxy for intelligence that would mean Ron Paul supporters come from a group od people with IQ above 120. A bold statement. Convince me. Other than the fact that Ron Paul supporters agree with you and your world view what makes them from the elite 10% intelligent minority? How do you know that? |
