They say Republicans have low IQs and liberals are smart.?

Question

My question is this. Why are Republicans more successful in business than liberals? Why do we hold more advanced degrees? Why do we hold more real degrees? I could have gotten a liberal arts degree when I was in grade school. Instead I got a business degree. I think there is this myth liberals are smarter because sure, many of them have college degrees but seriously, how hard is it to get a degree in drawing?

To be fair there are always exceptions. All I am saying is this. We do not attack liberals. We do not march through the streets like liberals. We do not need to scream like lunatics to have our voices heard. When you have truth on your side it is hard to muster the energy for fanaticism.

Some guy said a business degree is the easiest. I beg to differ. I was a music business major at Columbia College in Chicago. My math and science requirement at Columbia was non existent. When I switch to a staright up business degree I had to take advanced mathmatics and science. So I know you are trying to fool people with that line. Take it from a former Democrat who started on a liberal arts degree.

Answer 1

"they" are probably liberal.

Answer 2

) Republicans do not hold more advanced degrees.

2) Business is the easiest degree of all except for possibly education.

3) There are plenty of successful liberal business people.

4) There is no such thing as a degree in drawing -- and anyway drawing ain't that easy.

5) All the degrees that liberal s get are fake and only the ones that conservatives get are real? That's a pretty stupid thing to say and proves the point you are trying to negate.

PS I have an MBA and I'm a liberal. So the MBA is a fake degree by your logic --

PPS -- You don't attack liberals? That's the dumbest thing I have ever heard. Sean Hanitty,Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Bill O'Reilly, Mark Levin etc. have made a career out of attacking liberals. Attacking liberals is an industry unto itself. The main political tactic of the right is attacking liberals and liberalism. Not to mention all the attacks on liberals on Yahoo answers. You are doing a great job of showing how smart you are...not.

PPS OK Business is one of the easier degrees. Easier than all the science and engineering degrees. A lot of people at my school switched to buisiness after they couldn't handle engineering or science. Yes, others switched to Liberal Arts too. The math involved in Business is nothing compared to the math required for engineering.

Answer 3

It's essentially a myth, put forward by a largely liberal news media and a far-left liberal college faculty community.

Fact is, political alignment doesn't have much to do with IQ. There are smart conservatives, smart moderates and smart liberals. Also there are dumb conservatives, dumb moderates and dumb liberals. And then there are those too dumb to have a position.

I have a degree--a liberal arts degree, if you will--(broadcast journalism.) I happen to be a lifelong conservative.

I've been a lot more liberal than I am now, but that was in my immediate post-college days.

I think many liberals tend to be idealists, and that may not be an altogether bad thing. Conservatives tend to have survived a few more reality checks and that will swing them back to the right.

There are issues where liberals are more correct than conservatives, others where conservatives are more correct than liberals and other issues where the moderates are right.

Each issue deserves its own analysis.

Answer 4

As a fellow conservative and a Ph.D. candidate who shares some of your sensitivities about being labeled dumb so often, I hope you will forgive me if I challenge some of your assumptions.

First, your claim about us holding more advanced degrees is on rough footing. Perhaps if you include MBAs, you might reach that conclusion, but liberals could just as easily counter that they are better represented among Ph.D.s, implying that somehow conservatives can only handle dollars and cents, but not real theoretical work. (No, I'm not saying this myself. I'm simply pointing out that the counting of advanced degrees lends itself to abuse, and is probably not the way to go here.)

Second, liberals might reasonably question your conclusion that their degrees aren't real. There is a tendency for the Left not to appreciate the value of an MBA, and for the Right not to appreciate the value of a degree in arts, literature, or behavioral sciences. At any rate, I as a conservative would get pretty steamed if someone told me that my subject of study (rhetoric) wasn't "real." My area of expertise -- just like other fields like economics, political science, or natural science -- enables me to view events and understand them in ways that most people never do. I find talking to experts in other fields endlessly fascinating and always enlightening, and they seem to get the same benefit from talking to me. But the key to those conversations is that we do not belittle each others' specialties.

Third, I mentor MBA students at a major university. While some of them are bright, they are not demonstrating any capabilities to me that I haven't seen also demonstrated by students in the humanities elsewhere. In short, I'm not sure that your business degree is so much better than a liberal arts degree. It certainly is a different degree, and it's probably better for securing a job in industry. But liberal arts is probably a better degree for people who want to teach. "Better" is relative to the situation.

Lastly, I would challenge your assumption that Republicans are better in business than liberals, as well as your assumption that -- if it were true -- it would mean anything. Take a look at the Forbes richest list, and the folks at the top of it. Many of them are at least moderately liberal, and a good number are out-and-out partisan Democrats. Take a look at the red-blue divide on a map of the country, and note how the blue areas are always the richest states and the richest cities within them.

In fact, I think the long association of Republicans with "big money" is largely the product of a class-based smear campaign by the Left, and walking into it on your part is a dangerous habit.

However, even if Republicans really were better at earning money than Democrats, you should consider the fact that many liberals are simply sitting out that race. They don't believe in capitalism, don't like the smell of it, and won't get near it if they can help it. If you say we're better at earning money than them, you're essentially claiming to have won a race against a group of people who mostly sat on the sidelines.

Please don't think I'm challenging your beliefs here. I probably agree with you on most political issues. I'm simply trying to undo some myths that I think damage our collective chances of understanding one another.

Answer 5

First off, who is "they"? I haven't heard of any scientific studies that support that assertion.

Secondly, there are more ways to be successful than just in business. There are also jobs in healthcare, education, the sciences, and so forth. There are many successful liberals, just as there are many successful conservatives. Your political party doesn't define your success.

Perhaps if your defintion of success is successfully running a business, then yes, there are probably more successful conservatives. However, who's happier? I can say that being stuck in an office all day would bore me, while working with kids on a daily basis is so much more rewarding. I might not make as much money, but I'm a hell of a lot happier. And that, to me, is success.

And I wouldn't mock degrees that you don't have. As a music education major, I worked harder in college than any person that I knew who was majoring in business. And many liberals have degrees in fields such as medicine and engineering. Those are not easy!

How come liberals get divorced less? The states that voted for Bush in 2000 tend to have higher divorce rates than states that voted for Gore. Why is that? Could it possibly be because liberals tend to be happier and easier to live with?

Answer 6

They both have low IQ's but the Liberal side sound like Socialist to me and the Republicans sound like CEO's. At least CEO's
employ people, Socialists in-slave them. I think their IQ's are high enough to keep us all by the short and curlies with the current party system. I studied Liberal Arts in a few different places, I also studied Accounting, I believe in a balance of both, not either or.

Answer 7

One, where do you get off saying a liberal arts degree isn't a degree? Second, there are plenty of liberals who are successful in business. Ever hear of Bill Gates? Neither liberals or conservatives are, as a group, smarter or less smart than the other. That's just foolish and propaganda.

Answer 8

Who is "They".
Seattles pretty liberal town in a lot of ways and a kind of prissy nanny state in others and BIG BIG business in other ways.
People just do what hopefully suits their temperament.
My boss is business guy but I would put him in semi liberal camp.
And I don't mean Cindy Sheehan mental case liberal.
I mean live and let live liberal.
iaw who cares who is having sex with whom?
And who cares if somebody wants to smoke a bowl after work getting home from work?
That sort of thing.
And he is hard nosed business guy when he is doing business.
But I was stuck for rent one time and he fronted me the money
(300 bucks)and the arrangment was that I pay him 50 bucks per payday until debt payed.
I payed 50 bucks one pay day.
The next payday he gave me my check.
I said I was heading to bank and would have his money for him shortly.
He said to FORGET the rest of the money.
Happy Birthday!
Seems like a pretty liberal attitude to me.
He got MBA from UW and is Commercial Real Estate Broker.
Plenty of liberals with degrees and without.
Plenty of conservatives with degrees and without.
I am pretty liberal and I got G.E.D.
Beware of boxes.
I think a lot of what is regard as liberal vs conservative really falls along religious lines.
I am agnostic.
My boss gets dragged to Mass once in a while.

Answer 9

When you say "they" I am assuming you mean people on the left. Anyone that says anyone has a low IQ is just trying to be insulting. Anyone that claims that they are mentally superior are usually just covering for their own insecurities. But I see it as this, if liberals say that republicans have a low IQ and they keep beating them in elections; what does that say for IQ liberals have?

Cheers, Scott

Answer 10

Have any statistics to back your assertion? Sounds prejudicial and conjectural.

I have a business degree too. I don't know that it was any more difficult than a liberal arts degree.

Doesn't drawing fall under fine arts instead of liberal arts?

Answer 11

Most people as they age and gain real life experience tend to become more conservative. Most Liberal are young inexperienced people and older people in arrested development.

Granted IQ goes down with age but that is a long time after the switch from liberalism than conservatism, it happens more when a person reaches mid 60+

Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains."
Winston Churchill (Some say George Bernard Shaw)