Everyone is moderate… in their own mind.

I'm not.

If you poll Democratic Party voters they will tell you they are moderate. If you poll them issue by issue most of them agree with Bernie Sanders, the most radical elected left-wing senator.

Let's be real here. Back before MAGA was a thing every Republican I knew, and I lived in the deep south so I knew a lot, liked Bernie. If the elite hadn't done everything in their power to kneecap him he would have swept in 2016 and we'd be living in a completely different world today.

My pet theory is that idiots subliminally think "centrist" means "central" as in "center of the universe" and it resonates for them. IME the stupidest people are also very self-centered.

Being the most left wing in the US doesn't make you even remotely extremist.

The US is very right-wing.

Being very left from a US PoV is actually moderate from other places' PoV.

No one said your coordinate system needs to start on the left and point to the right. Whar if it started on the right and pointed to the left?

Most of intelligence is simply having less morals than the regular person.

We got this gal for possession of two joints, we're now forcing her to go undercover in a crack den where she could, and did, get murdered.

We need to know how America built nukes. What if we just paid someone to give us the information?

We need to know America's military innovations. What if we gave an incel a submissive asian GF?

We need a brain dead yes man for China. What if we gave him a submissive asian wife?

We need a mole in the CIA. What if we gave a guy a bunch of money?

Are you willing to force a random woman to spy for you, whore herself for her country? Are you willing to bribe randos for intel? There are creative ways but sex and money dominate that field.

Oh and I almost forgot. What if, for absolutely no reason, we paid hookers to sneak LSD and other drugs into their Johns and filmed it using taxpayer money?

What if we knew about an international pedophile ring, a comically compromised individual who will sell anyone out for a buck. What if we had a heart-attack gun and did nothing with it, you know like just let a comically evil person just live their life. Oh, the rich murder pedo is running for president? Nah, we have no obligation to do good or protect America.

For the most part, intelligence agencies are anything but. They are however, comically corrupt and ineffective.

That's cool, who is it? The idea is this would be applied to everything, that is we don't need to believe socialism or capitalism or communism is a good or bad idea, we can test it and get measurable proof.

Oh, no, I wrote that poorly. I think past me definitely felt like I understood things more at the time compared to now. A blissful ignorance.

Oh yeah, totally agree.

Could you cite something? I haven't seen any of this, and I'm very curious to see where it's coming from.

Leftist dogma hurts business. Nobody ever died from having a 2 day weekend or from being forced to work less than 40 hours a week

Acknowledging that limitation means my previous statement doesn't apply to you.

Well for the purposes of understanding this, you don't need to. This post is stupid for so many other reasons. Like any graph your axis have to make sense. You're plotting two pieces of data against each other so you need to know what those two pieces of data are and what their scales are.

But here they're measuring IQ against political leanings. But that doesn't work because political affiliation isn't a scale any more then favourite colour is a scale. IQ is a scale, but the bottom axis is just nothing.

Fun fact, the findings were actually that the students thought they scored closer to the average than they actually did. As in, below average students did think they scored higher, but they still thought they scored below average.

Yeah that's kind of what I was referring to.