"Intelligence was able to significantly predict social liberalism and lower authoritarianism, within families, even after controlling for socioeconomic variables. Our findings may provide the strongest causal inference to date of intelligence directly affecting political beliefs."
The science is in: if you're a right winger it's because you're probably dumb as a rock.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0160289624000254
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