Tony Snark A man with no nuance I see it a lot on this board, nothing ever gets concluded, It just shifts looking for more unstable ground to fight over People get on your merry -go-round and in the end everyone gets sick and is puking on their shoes
1. Are people in the US becoming more or less intelligent? It is true that both Democrats and Republicans have members that are intellectually inferior. 2. However, the group declining mentally the quickest are Democrats. Go to any large Democrat municipality and look at the academic achievement of the study body of the schools in these areas. In every case very large portions of the student body can not come close to reading at their grade level. Forget about math. And yet they advance in school and eventually graduate. These schools are not there to educate. These schools act as day care centers. Each year these schools graduate millions and millions of illiterates. As America becomes dumber you have to question the concept of the majority deciding. It's like letting your kids run the house. The average IQ of an African America is 85. This mental deficiency is genetic. There is no social program that can remedy this. Since LBJ's War on Poverty in 1964, the US has spent over $21 trillion on welfare programs. The net result is to make the poor more dependent on the government.
The average IQ of a conservative white racist is around 50. This mental deficiency is genetic,lots of racism and inbreeding in the past.Sadly there is no social program that can remedy this.
If everybody took an IQ test my guess is you would find more Democrats at both extremes and Republicans more concentrated towards the middle. Those without a high school diploma are likely to be the poorest/often minorities. They're the most likely to need government services such as Medicaid/food stamps to survive. Those with a high school diploma and no college education are going to be whiter than the previous group, more working/middle class. Many of the white people in this group follow religion and have racial/immigrant/globalization resentment. This is Trump's base. As education increases for white people you'll see they are less religious and have less racial/immigrant resentment. As education levels increase they're more likely to live in more racially diverse/urban settings and they have to deal with issues like homelessness in their communities. In an urban setting, infrastructure/traffic become very important issues for quality of life.