Research into the origins of leftism suggests that leftism was neither increased by the proliferation of new ideas, nor are differences in leftism between people at the current time mainly caused by differences in idea exposure. A good upper estimate of the variance of leftism explained information is 20%. Exposing everyone to HBD will almost certainly move the mean by less than 0.50 SDs to the right. Meanwhile, Cthulu will still swim left due to dysgenics and mutational load. And nothing is stopping leftist counter-ideas from dampening this shift. If leftism is primarily genetic, as it would seem, then rightwingers are now naturally a shrinking biological minority. In a free marketplace of
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