okay that doesn't rly answer the question since you are someone w/ leftwing views who isn't part of the organized movement
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas @hradzka
Sorry. Being glib. My experience has been that leftists tend to shun "creeps" and unstable people as they value group cohesion and communality. I think many of these folk move far-right because antisocial behavior is more tolerated there
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Replying to @Bananaaquamelon @hradzka
i doubt that's true, i used to be quite far left myself, i know all about unstable leftists
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It's quite possible that right wing anti-sociality and instability is expressed differently from leftist examples of such.
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maybe but if you look at the demographics of leftist support they have been drawing from a much dumber demographic for a long time
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas @CrecusLohe and
obv a vanguard party can be very small, and so can set a minimum on quality of recruits from the class it leads
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas @CrecusLohe and
but fringe parties can't be so picky, so take a step back; what do the smaller fringe lefty grps do? how does the left as a whole handle the Idiot Question?
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It seems to me that simply turning such people away is not a sufficient solution given that people can operate alone or in separate groups. These people seem smart enough to be ideological, but for some reason they don't consider consequences. Either that, or they're sociopathic
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is "smart enough to be ideological" a high bar? i know median voter (=iq 100) not v ideological on avg, but...
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In my imagination I picture a person who has some explanation for how the world operates and an idea about how the world should be, why it should be that way, and how to make it so. Maybe this is more function of how knowledgeable they are though, rather than intelligence.
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i think in studies of the electorate, "ideological" mostly means "consistent" - i.e. can you predict their answers to some q's from their answers to others? if they're always correlated, it's ideological (that's the sense in which "more informed" voters are more ideological)
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