>>16737334
>Intelligence is an existential threat to leftism and religion alike.
You have a point, but it's not just about intelligence.
It's even more so about empathy.
Right wingers experience more in-group empathy while leftists experience more out-group empathy.
This is why Leftists are so focused on the alphabet people, migrants / minorities, animals, the environment, trees and even inanimate objects, while often having a bad relationship with their parents / family, siblings and community.
On the other hand, right wingers experience more empathy for their family, friends, neighbors, community, religious group, and ideological group, while having little empathy for migrants, other religions or minorities.
This is why right wingers are much more ethno-nationalist, tribalistic or segregationist than left wingers.
So even if intelligence does play a role, I think the Left / Right divide is much more of a difference in empathy than just purely IQ.
Pic extremely related.