Because most smart people go to academia. You’re actually just proving his point
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Anonymous#111w
How exactly was I doing that?
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AnonymousOP11w
Because your political ideology is highly correlated with where you go to college, and most of the smartest people go to prestigious colleges. Almost all the most prestigious colleges are left leaning. So his point about academia being the root of the ideology makes sense
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AnonymousOP11w
I know intelligent people who go to conservative schools and that’s the political view they leave with