What are the implications of research regularly showing that right-wingers are generally
a) less educated
b) disinclined to reading
c) low in traits like agreeableness and openness
d) lower in cultural capital and status. (though harder to show in a neat chart, it links to b. most readers will know what i mean if i just say they're
uncool.)
and the frankly obvious-and-growing divide of political behavior by intelligence throughout the west, with better educated people voting for left/liberal parties and less educated people voting for nationalists and reactionaries.
in this sense, and only this sense, are the right correct to identify the left with liberals. both leftists and liberals are generally educated, enjoy reading, and high agreeableness/openness, the opposite of rightists.
what are the implications as relate to the idea that right-wing fake news and rage-bait are
demand lead, with low-openness, low-agreeableness, poorly educated non-readers prefering to watch nonsense not because they're manipulated into it by outside forces, but because this is just
what they likewhat are the implications for left-wing organizing strategy, which tends to resist trying to appeal directly to the interests of educated knowledge workers (or, indeed, young proletarianized female service workers with degrees) because of the aesthetic pull of historical industrial mass-movements?
what are the implications in the longer run, given that higher education enrolment levels have generally been rising over time, such that more than 50% of British young people now go into further education by age 30? what are the implications of this trend reversing, as is apparently happening in the US?
a small sub-set of rightists like Richard Hanania are open about their own side's deficiencies (which is helpful, because the high-agreeability left would never say something as vulgar as "Our opponents are just plain stupid", so it's nice for a low-agreeability rightist to put the evidence up themselves)
https://www.richardhanania.com/p/coping-with-low-human-capitalhttps://www.richardhanania.com/p/listen-to-the-science-conservativeshttps://www.richardhanania.com/p/liberals-read-conservatives-watchbut even in his case, he now regrets voting for Trump because he thought that putting someone like Elon Musk in would raise the average intelligence of the administration, rather than the right successfully pulling Musk down to their level. in a certain sense, he's just a neoliberal with conservative aesthetic preferences.
>none of this matters, it's all just a proxy for classgraph 3:
>This graph shows the change in probability a voter supported each party when he or she has a university degree or is in the highest income segment. Points above zero indicate a higher probability, points below zero indicate a lower probability. Lines are smoothing lines meant to facilitate observing a pattern. (Authors provided)note how degree voting is a very strong predictor of voting for canada's liberals (post neoliberal reform in the 1980s) or, more gently, the left-leaning NDP. note how in the early 1980s, having a degree made one weakly less likely to vote NDP, while now it makes one more likely. note how the NDP remains popular with poorer voters, while the Conservatives have completely and utterly bled support with degree holders since the 1980s.
>college SJWs will always betray the left, look at Corbyn and Bernie and how he was undermined by idpol!!in the 2019 UK election, despite massive propaganda portraying Corbyn as an antisemite (and previous attempts to paint him as a sexist, etc), he won 42% of the vote with degree holders (against something like 20% for the Conservatives), while amongst the poorly educated something like 55% voted Conservative. if only degree holders could vote, Corbyn would've won a Tony Blair sized majority. on the flip side, if only the poorly educated could vote, the conservatives would've won something like a national-government tier majority.
>voting doesn't matter, we're revolutionaries!!it is not that voting matters, it is what voting shows about the voters that is interesting. if you're trying to guess who'd jump over to your vanguard party, it's helpful to know that poorly educated people are running over to reactionaries at top speed while more educated people are moving the opposite direction. if you're a highly educated book-enjoying, highly agreeable, highly open, generally cool sort of person you're not going to win over a MAGA voter by pandering to one or two of their obsessions while all of their demographic traits are hostile to yours.