We keep telling them the secret of their failure over and over, but the truth must be just too painful. Among the many explanations which only partly explains: liberalism is a social intelligence, not an intellectual intelligence. Being a liberal means picking up the cues, the references, the inside jokes, the ideas in fashion without having to be told. By showing that you “get it,” you show that you belong to that group — that you are a natural inhabitant and not an intruder.

Because there is some overlap — because some of the socially intelligent are also intellectually gifted — liberals falsely conclude that the possession of the one entitles them to claim the other. Hence actors, who perhaps by definition must be socially intelligent, have the most disdain for those socially inept people who don’t understand that it’s not cool to be a cowboy or work at some uncool job or live in Nebraska or something.

So it just does not penetrate when you attempt to make a logical persuasive argument. “Don’t you get it? Bush is like, stupid. All the cool kids know that. The people who don’t know that are so… oafish”

As long as they equate social intelligence with actual intelligence, they are going to continue to sink into progressive obscurity.