The former, I think. I know plenty of libs who are otherwise quite intelligent, especially in their chosen fields. But once politics comes up, it’s like a switch flipping
Mostly the former, there are plenty of smart people who are avid liberals who just have aligning class interests (labor aristocrats), and there are tons that just get so pumped full of propaganda, for example one might think “smart people read and believe the mainstream media, because they are the arbitres of truth, therefore anything contradictory they’ve said must have either been corrected because they are so responsible or I must be remembering incorrectly.”
Does liberalism make people dumb or only dumb people believe it? That’s the question.
The former, I think. I know plenty of libs who are otherwise quite intelligent, especially in their chosen fields. But once politics comes up, it’s like a switch flipping
Mostly the former, there are plenty of smart people who are avid liberals who just have aligning class interests (labor aristocrats), and there are tons that just get so pumped full of propaganda, for example one might think “smart people read and believe the mainstream media, because they are the arbitres of truth, therefore anything contradictory they’ve said must have either been corrected because they are so responsible or I must be remembering incorrectly.”
Both. It’s like egg and chicken question of stupidity.
People may be fooled into it and get dumbed down by it, or they may be dumb enough to believe it