'Right-wingers are less intelligent than left wingers', says study

Dudess · 15-02-2012 12:31AM

From what I know, it's about half and half when it has come to capitalist/socialist tyrannies. I use the terms loosely because these are not the sum totals of the ideologies on which they have been built.

K-9 · 15-02-2012 12:39AM

44leto wrote: »

Then educate me what is socialism. Define it if you can, show me this socialist high IQ.

You've been educated before on this, so I'm sorry 44leto, no disrespect meant at all, you've been told this sooooooo many times, it really is up to you to go and read about it. You wont catch the ghey, you'll be grand!

Maybe stop reading conservipedia for a start!

I'm going to ask a question here, what is your definition of right wing?

44leto · 15-02-2012 12:40AM

Logical Fallacy wrote: »

There is no point in judging a despot by the title they give themselves.

Plenty of "Communist" states have existed, yet none have actually practiced a true communist system. If anything most of them have engaged in a form of extreme capitalism but without assorted tenants that ensure the far treatment of the worker...which is grand as they are not a democracy so who gives a ****?

Personally i like capitalism as it's practiced in a democracy but it also has some major flaws. No real point in pretending it works just fine when the majority of capitalist countries have had their holes kicked for the last few years.

Capitalism is not perfect but neither is democracy both systems only work because they are dynamic and they can adjust to situations, they are not absolutely rigid, they can change. Social capitalism as practiced in Western Europe was a response to communism, even holidays, the closer a country was to the old Iron curtain the more holidays the workers enjoy. Its why Germany have the most and "perhaps" why the USA have the least.

The capitalism practiced in China and Russia is a pure form and to be frank it sucks, its almost anti human just like extreme socialism or communism. It was Victor Havel the Czech dissident who went on to be the countries first post communist leader who said Communism is against human nature,,as I believe extreme capitalism is.

But I know I have benefited from the capitalist system as all us in the wealthy west has, we owe that wealth to that system. We borrow, we get stuff, we work, we pay it back with interest. Any spare capital we invest for pensions ETC. But the thing about free markets is they have to be regulated and controlled, because of our nature, the regulation is were it failed. But I have little doubt it will rise again, there are no alternatives.

44leto · 15-02-2012 12:41AM

K-9 wrote: »

You've been educated before on this, so I'm sorry 44leto, no disrespect meant at all, you've been told this sooooooo many times, it really is up to you to go and read about it. You wont catch the ghey, you'll be grand!

Maybe stop reading conservipedia for a start!

I'm going to ask a question here, what is your definition of right wing?

So you don't know...OK,,as I suspected.

K-9 · 15-02-2012 01:20AM

44leto wrote: »

So you don't know...OK,,as I suspected.

And I could deduce you don't know what right wing is, or a rather afraid of defining it.

Put it this way, the more and more I look at left and right wing economic policies, the more I see they end up at the same, roughly the same place, still blaming the other on how it got there!

Socialism to me is Labour of the 80's, in both the UK and here. Been rejected here and the UK. Right wing would be the Tories and Maggie, since rejected as both sides move to the centre.

44leto · 15-02-2012 01:30AM

K-9 wrote: »

And I could deduce you don't know what right wing is, or a rather afraid of defining it.

Put it this way, the more and more I look at left and right wing economic policies, the more I see they end up at the same, roughly the same place, still blaming the other on how it got there!

Socialism to me is Labour of the 80's, in both the UK and here. Been rejected here and the UK. Right wing would be the Tories and Maggie, since rejected as both sides move to the centre.

After the French revolution the right wing use to sit on the right of that short live parliament to try stop all the Utopian ideas of the left wing who sat on the left. And there it began (John Grey Loosely quoted).

Even today the right wingers tend not to believe in any type of fairness achieved through what they perceive as Utopian societal loaded ideas. They believe largely in your own effort. So it is individual rights over societal rights. But off course you have to have a bit of both for a functional society, so we are all really pragmatists, but on the left or right of that.

Maggie was also quite a Utopian she believed in creating an entrepreneurial Britain of which people could buy in to the private market for health, pensions etc.

Labour in the 80s was a disaster, to spite Maggies unpopular policies she still got 3 terms.

K-9 · 15-02-2012 01:39AM

44leto wrote: »

Even today the right wingers tend not to believe in any type of fairness achieved through what they perceive as Utopian societal loaded ideas. They believe largely in your own effort. So it is individual rights over societal rights. But off course you have to have a bit of both for a functional society, so we are all really pragmatists, but on the left or right of that.

Nothing wrong with individual rights, combine it with say Romney and his activities, it's all about huge profits and if none are seen, close it down. Or maybe outsource to China and moan about American uncompetitive policies and blame Obama, handy out for greed.

Maggie was also quite a Utopian she believed in creating an entrepreneurial Britain of which people could buy in to the private market for health, pensions etc.

Indeed, privatising will solve all ills.

Labour in the 80s was a disaster, to spite Maggies unpopular policies she still got 3 terms.

Sure I already said it was.

'Right-wingers are less intelligent than left wingers', says study

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