[falcrist]

Being intelligent might correlate with a more liberal outlook, but I know a few highly intelligent people who are big fans of trump.

My father was a nuclear reactor operator and electrician for a big chunk of his 22 years in the Navy (EM-N, E-8, worked mostly on fast attack subs). He was a manager at multiple nuclear powerplants on the East Coast before leaving that industry. He's honestly highly intelligent and curious.

He's definitely a trump fan. He thinks Biden is going to destroy the US. Dude's politics are unhinged.

One of my siblings is disabled, bi, and trans, yet both of my parents supported trump openly in 2016.

C'est la vie. It goes to show you never can tell.

[cam_l]

I don't doubt what you have said, and it follows my own experiences of politics in Australia.

But i must say, when I hear the reasons why people vote the way they do, my estimation of their intelligence drops significantly.

[pennybanks]

does intelligence and voting have some sort of correlation? should a vote from an unintelligent person count less in an hypothetical better system?

[shadowgovt]

Speaking in pure hypotheticals, the most effective form of governance is benevolent dictatorship.

... But in terms of forms that are practically implementable without perfect knowledge and control of the future, there are huge risks involved with altering the amount a person's vote counts based upon some kind of gamable criteria.