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Originally Posted by mysticaltyger
As someone who leans conservative, I admit I find this embarrassing. 
But at the same time, I have to question if liberals are really that much smarter. There was an interesting post on CD that generally found liberal voters occupied both extremes on the education spectrum...the very top and the very bottom; whereas conservatives were more in the middle. I know education isn't a perfect proxy for IQ, but then I also think there are many kinds of intelligence not well measured by IQ. |
I can kind of see that.
I find that I myself flop between conservative and liberal.
I believe in helping the poor... Then I work at a job where I see someone receive a housing subsidy of $1500/month for a two bedroom apartment all by himself. That's 75% of my mortgage on a $350,000 house that he is subsidized monthly.
All for public education... Until I see that property taxes are going up because they need to hire 5 more special education techs (among other things). When I started school, special education consisted of one room with one teacher, sometimes a tech. When I left high school in 2007, each special education kid had his own tech. When I read statistics such as in the 1950s there was 240+ teachers per 100 non-teachers, as of 2008 my state had 100 teachers per 140 non-teachers.
I'd be all for a nice balance between the two sides. You have to have that for them to keep each other in balance, because neither of them are right or wrong.
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