Gibbers - if what you're inferring is that most liberals aren't very bright, then I respectfully disagree with your opinion.
The fact that most academics/intellectuals are liberals speaks volumes. If the majority of the "smartest" people in America (and the world) are, in fact, liberal, then the demographic portraying this group to mainly consist of lazy welfare recipients and criminals or other such degenerates, as reported by the media and propagated by conservative logic, is highly erroneous. And almost all of those in the Humanities are liberal. You know, the Humanities, the discipline that is focused on understanding the human condition and humankind - those that know and care about human beings - and are often engaged in critical thought as opposed to mindless actions.
Summary of Results In our examinations of over 150 departments and upper-level administrations at 32 elite colleges and universities, the Center found the following:
The overall ratio of Democrats to Republicans we were able to identify at the 32 schools was more than 10 to 1 (1397 Democrats, 134 Republicans).
Although in the nation at large registered Democrats and Republicans are roughly equal in number, not a single department at a single one of the 32 schools managed to achieve a reasonable parity between the two. The closest any school came to parity was Northwestern University where 80% of the faculty members we identified were registered Democrats who outnumbered registered Republicans by a ratio of 4-1.
At other schools we found these representations of registered faculty Democrats to Republicans:
Brown 30-1
Bowdoin, Wellesley 23-1
Swarthmore 21-1
Amherst, Bates 18-1
Columbia, Yale 14-1
Pennsylvania, Tufts, UCLA and Berkeley 12-1
Smith 11-1
At no less than four elite schools we could not identify a single Republican on the faculty:
Williams 51 Democrats, 0 Republicans
Oberlin 19 Democrats, 0 Republicans
MIT 17 Democrats, 0 Republicans
Haverford 15 Democrats, 0 Republicans
Faculty registration is just as unbalanced at major research universities as it is at small colleges. At Columbia University, the Center could identify only 6 faculty Republicans. The Center could not locate a single Republican in the history, political science, and sociology departments. Cornell University was just as left-leaning: the departments of English and history were entirely devoid of registered Republicans.
Administrators lean just as far to the left: at schools like the University of Pennsylvania, Carnegie Melon, and Cornell, we could not identify a single Republican administrator. In the entire Ivy League, we identified only 3 Republican administrators.
http://cronkitenewsonline.com/2012/...ns-arizona-higher-education-favors-democrats/
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog...-there-liberal-bias-among-american-professors
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/08/science/08tier.html?_r=3&src=me&ref=homepage
It was identified by Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist at the University of Virginia who studies the intuitive foundations of morality and ideology. He polled his audience at the San Antonio Convention Center, starting by asking how many considered themselves politically liberal. A sea of hands appeared, and Dr. Haidt estimated that liberals made up 80 percent of the 1,000 psychologists in the ballroom. When he asked for centrists and libertarians, he spotted fewer than three dozen hands. And then, when he asked for conservatives, he counted a grand total of three.
