Low intelligence and “low effort thinking” are strongly linked to right-wing attitudes

[exGOPer]

I thought the republicans were supposed to be the party of the rich. So according to you, rich people have low intelligence and low effort.

I guess all those lazy democrats, living off of welfare, are the smart ones.

Republican party is run by the rich, their base is poor whites who are propagandized by culture wars (read abortion, black welfare queens, gays etc).

 

[exGOPer]

So... Trump support = Racism?

Not all, a lot of Trump support is from racists, Neo-Nazis and low intellect wingers feeling persecuted by a more liberal culture.

 

[Tony Stark]

Yes military bases benefit local defense companies that donate to Congressional representatives. Of course Congress doesn't want military bases shut down -- they would lose all that lobbying money. Naturally military installations don't help the local property tax base while costing plenty of money in infrastructure and local school costs.

The Comptroller study found that the 15 major military installations located in Texas generate more than $136.6 billion in economic activity here each year, and add $81.4 billion to our gross state product (Exhibit 1). They also generate $48.1 billion in annual personal income and support, directly and indirectly, nearly 806,000 Texas jobs.

 

[Tony Stark]

Yes military bases benefit local defense companies that donate to Congressional representatives. Of course Congress doesn't want military bases shut down -- they would lose all that lobbying money. Naturally military installations don't help the local property tax base while costing plenty of money in infrastructure and local school costs.

Without military bases boosting their economies red states would be even bigger takers than they already are.

 

[gwb-trading]

Without military bases boosting their economies red states would be even bigger takers than they already are.

Why don't we move all the military bases up to blue states and see how they like it. We will start by moving everything in Fayetteville up to a suburb of New York City and see how much they support it in their own backyard.

 

[gwb-trading]

The Comptroller study found that the 15 major military installations located in Texas generate more than $136.6 billion in economic activity here each year, and add $81.4 billion to our gross state product (Exhibit 1). They also generate $48.1 billion in annual personal income and support, directly and indirectly, nearly 806,000 Texas jobs.

Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar with a long employment history with the defense industry finds that military bases are good for Texas. How amusing. Too bad he sucks at math -- except for his biased math.

 

[Tony Stark]

Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar with a long employment history with the defense industry finds that military bases are good for Texas. How amusing. Too bad he sucks at math -- except for his biased math.

"The military presence and defense contracts pumped more than $8.7 billion into the Louisiana economy during the 2012 fiscal year, with almost one third of the money tied to bases and activities in the New Orleans area, according to a summary of a long-sought economic impact analysis commissioned by the state. About 82,700 Louisiana jobs -- or about 4.35 percent of the state’s employment -- are tied to the military, and the workforce generated $287 million in state and local taxes in fiscal 2012, according to the study."

 

[Tony Stark]

http://www.nola.com/military/index....ending_key_piece_of.html#incart_more_business

Military spending key piece of Louisiana economy

The Naval Air Station-Joint Reserve Base in Belle Chasse is one of Louisiana’s economic engines, contributing a portion of the $2.4 billion in direct contract spending in the state by Defense Department entities and the U.S. Coast Guard, according to a summary of a new economic study The study, commissioned by the Louisiana Economic Development, has not been released publicly.

Almost 24,000 military retirees report living in Louisiana. They received more than $597 million the 2012 fiscal year, according to the study.

The study looks at total economic effect, total direct contract spending and the total economic effect for military retirees living in the state. Combined with “induced effects,” the total economic effect on Louisiana was almost $5.2 billion, according to the summary.

Fort Polk, the sprawling U.S. Army post in rural west-central Louisiana, is ranked at the top of the military installations in the state, according to the private group Fort Polk Progress, which announced the summary and reportedly helped pay for the study.

The base contributes almost 16,000 jobs and almost $600 million in payroll to the state, according to the report. About $1.3 billion in spending in the state was tied to Fort Polk in the 2012 fiscal year. The state claimed a victory earlier this year to head off the Army’s proposal to reduce Fort Polk dramatically.

The study looks at seven military installations and activities in the state, including Barksdale Air Force Base in Bossier City. U.S. Navy officials at the Belle Chasse air station have for years said the installation ranks as the fifth top employer in the state, a finding the study reportedly confirms.The economic impact study “confirms what our city has always known: Fort Polk is our economy,” Leesville Mayor Robert Rose said in the Fort Polk Progress release.

The
Louisiana Military Advisory Council
, a 25-member group whose members are appointed by Gov. Bobby Jindal, reviewed the “economic impact analysis” on Monday.

 

[Tony Stark]

Why don't we move all the military bases up to blue states and see how they like it. We will start by moving everything in Fayetteville up to a suburb of New York City and see how much they support it in their own backyard.

https://www.nccommerce.com/Portals/47/Publications/Industry Reports/2015-Economic-Impact-of-the-Military-on-North-Carolina.pdf

 

[WeToddDid2]

Longitudinal studies provide some of the most convincing evidence. One such study looked at general intelligence in 10- and 11-year-old kids, and then re-studied those kids as adults two decades later—and found a clear connection between low intelligence and subsequent racism and sexism. Similarly, higher intelligence in childhood has been shown to predict less racism in adulthood. These analyses strongly suggest that low intelligence actually leads to hateful attitudes later on.

This is just a sampling of the accruing evidence on this point, all of which points to another puzzling question: Why? Why would verbal ability and math skills and other cognitive assets translate, over the years, into such hateful attitudes?

Dhont and Hodson believe they have an answer to this, again one based on rigorous abundant evidence. Their theory is that right-wing ideologies attract people with lower mental abilities because they minimize the complexity of the world. Right-wing ideologies offer well-structured and ordered views of society, views that preserve traditions and norms, so they are especially attractive to those who are threatened by change and want to avoid uncertainty and ambiguity. Conversely, smart people are more capable of grasping a world of nuance, fluidity and relativity.

The empirical evidence supports this link, too. Low intelligence and “low effort thinking” are strongly linked to right-wing attitudes, including authoritarianism and conservative politics. And again, there appears to be a demonstrable causal link: Studies have found, for example, that children with poor mental skills grow up to be strongly right-wing adults.

There is a final link in the chain of causality, according to Dhont and Hodson. Considerable evidence shows that conservative ideology predicts all sorts of prejudice—against ethnic and racial minorities, the disadvantaged, any outgroup. Indeed, right wingers are much more likely to see outgroups as a threat to traditional values and social order, resulting in heightened prejudice. Dhont and Hodson tested and confirmed this mediation model: Lower childhood intelligence clearly predicts right-wing ideology and attitude, which in turn predicts prejudice in adulthood.

The scientists elaborate on this idea in the Current Directions article: Intelligence and thinking determine how people assess threats in the world. Those with lower ability—reasoning skills, processing speed, and so forth—prefer simple and predictable answers, because that is what they are capable of processing. Any uncertainty is threatening, and they respond to such threats by trying to preserve what is familiar and safe, the status quo. These conservative reactions are basic and normal—they reduce anxiety—but over time they harden into more stable and pervasive world views, which include stereotypical thinking, avoidance, prejudicial attitudes and over discrimination.

The weight of evidence is hard to ignore, yet according to these scientists, it is conspicuously absent from contemporary theories of prejudice. They believe that it’s time for psychological scientists to stop ignoring the evidence—that in fact the field will benefit from open discussion of these controversial findings. The country might as well, and the events in Ferguson may well trigger that discussion.

https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/were-only-human/is-racism-just-a-form-of-stupidity.html

Wow! Libtards have gone full Nazi eugenics.