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‘I Am the Change’ by Charles R. Kesler via NYTimes.com
Showing all posts tagged: conservatives
By now conservative intellectuals and media hacks have realized that it’s much easier to run a permanent counterrevolution out of their plush think-tank offices and television studios than to reflect seriously, do homework and cut a deal. All they have to do is spook their troops into believing that the Progressive Idea is still on the march and that they are setting out to meet it at Armageddon. Until then, keep those checks and votes coming in.
‘I Am the Change’ by Charles R. Kesler via NYTimes.com
SANTA FE, New Mexico (Reuters) - New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez, a Republican who has taken a hard line against illegal immigration in her state, said her own grandparents came to the country illegally.
“I know they arrived without documents, especially my grandfather, my father’s father,” she said in an interview with the Spanish-language television station KLUZ in Albuquerque on Wednesday.
“In those days, the law was very different,” she added, saying many people came to the United States without papers back then.
The governor’s comments come as she pushes state lawmakers, in a special session this week, to take up a bill to ban immigrants in the country illegally from getting driver’s licenses in the state.
Critics blasted the governor for what they called a “disgusting” show of hypocrisy by a woman they say clearly benefited from her grandparents’ decision to come to the country without papers.
“Her grandparents shared the same story of many undocumented people. It’s a sad day that the governor has chosen to turn her back on the same sacrifices she has benefited from. This is not the governor’s finest hour,” said Brent Wilkes, national executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based League of United Latin American Citizens.
Hypocrisy says what?
Question: Are liberals more intelligent than conservatives?
Satoshi Kanazawa: That is the conclusion of my latest study because being liberal is evolutionarily novel. In a sense, humans are designed to be conservative and it’s unnatural for humans to be liberal, being concerned about the welfare of millions of genetically unrelated other people. So more intelligent people are more likely to acquire unnatural preferences and values and being a liberal is one of them and as a result more intelligent people tend to be more liberal than less intelligent people.
Why Liberals Are More Intelligent Than Conservatives | Satoshi Kanazawa | Big Think
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