Thanks for that. I appreciate it. 🙂

I apologize for giving offense. Your original words appear immediately above, so it honestly never occurred to me that my paraphrase could be construed. In hindsight, the misunderstanding and careless punctuation are on me. You’re free to impute bad faith, but such is not the case.

“They all think alike because they’re so intelligent.” I did NOT say that, and it is a LIE to put that in quote marks as if I did. I’m happy to discuss things with someone who has a different point of view. I will not engage with someone who misrepresents what I said. This conversation is over.

There are more Democrat criminals because there are more blacks being criminalised by a corrupt and racist justice system and because the economy is rigged for the rich. Please take your trolling elsewhere.

I’d be more inclined to say that an intelligent, informed person with the education and analytical aptitude to examine issues deeply and arrive at reasoned conclusions is not going to end up holding opinions of the kind that are commonly tagged these days as liberal. Quite the contrary.

Why is there a striking lack of ideological diversity in certain occupations? Why are criminals, journalists, and art dealers likely to be Democrats (if you still doubt the latter, just do a casual query on opensecrets.org)?

I’ve always been amused by the hypothesis you suggest, namely: “They all think alike because they’re so intelligent.”

Hmmm… Or maybe it has more to do with tribalism, peer pressure, workplace bias, and countless other subtle factors and influences.

Well, a Baptist is a conservative Christian, and his wife said he read the Bible from “cover to cover to cover”. So he was a Bible-reading conservative Christian.

I said nowhere that he was fixated or vocal about religion or abortion.

I think the US Christian theocracy is a stronger possibility, at least in some states, than it has been for a long time too. There are a lot of people who are feeling scared and threatened by the changing demographics of the country, and are reacting in irrational ways.

I often hear people from the US on TV talking about how they’re the most diverse country in the world. It’s all about perception, because in fact they’re not. Not even close. NZ is far more diverse (I think we’re the most diverse Western country, but I’d have to check) and I’m pretty sure Ireland is up there with, or close to NZ as well. (I’ll have to find the data again and do a short post about it.) Anyway, the upshot is that the US is nowhere near as diverse as it thinks it is.

I’ve heard of The Handmaid’s Tale, but never read it. I should. If the movie is faithful to the book, I might just watch that – yes I know, very lazy. 🙂

1. I wasn’t aware that I blamed anyone.
2. Michelle Malkin is a nasty piece of work. She drips hate. There will always be bad commentators and journalists on both sides of the fence. Yes, some of them are on the left. Some are on the right too.
3. I do not see what was so “brave” about Daleiden’s films. They got to know people over a long period of time by lying about who they were, filmed covertly, and tricked people into saying things when they had been drinking that they clearly wouldn’t have said in a normal conversation. Then they deceptively edited those videos to promote their own agenda.
4. “Brilliant?” Yes, I’ll give you that. They were a brilliant piece of propaganda.
5. I don’t support any form of terrorism, including radical environmental or animal rights. As I’ve mentioned here before, though before you became a reader, I stopped my regular donation to Greenpeace because I was concerned about some of the tactics they were using. They, of course, are a pretty mainstream group.
6. Has anyone ever wondered why the majority of trained journalists are liberal? Is it perhaps because they are generally reasonably intelligent and almost always educated and thus have the skills to think through the issues deeply and come to reasoned conclusions, which happen to be opinions that are labeled liberal?

That also said other things that were cut out that changed the meaning of what you did here. They said what they said, then it was cut up to change the meanings.

Unfortunately one of the side effects of a harder harsher Anthropogenically Created Hot House World will be fascist and other totalitarian type govts will form to take control of things to gain resources and to destroy other polities in its way and the hordes of the desperate as other places become uninhabitable. But that is a bit further in the future though not as far as some think it will be.