THE POOR QUALITY OF POLITICIANS One thing that I hear pretty consistently, is th

THE POOR QUALITY OF POLITICIANS

One thing that I hear pretty consistently, is that the people in charge of the different political factions, and in fact, everyone in politics here, “Isn’t very good” or “isn’t very smart”. And you really do get that impression.

I don’t know where the smart people are, or if they left, but you know, I always have this impression that the IQ distribution here is narrower (not sure where to get the data to prove that). I know that IQ is a bit lower (around 96) but again, I’ll bet that if I got my hands on the data, it’s a distribution issue. IQ rapidly degenerates south and east of Ukraine. Anything that the Turks touched was seriously impacted.

But all that nonsense aside, you don’t seem to find smart people in government. And it’s not an anti-intellectual culture. Just the opposite. But the politicians really just remind you of gangsters and thugs.