Liberals are the most narrow minded group of people on earth.

@Sidewinder Liberal are so open minded their brains all fell out Until their liberalism is questioned. Then their mind snaps shut like a steel trap. Liberalism is a mental disease.

@JAYS21 You see, that all depends on how you define the word "smart," as there are many different measures of intellect in general.

When my sister and I were children, I was far more conservative and intellectual than her at the time, whereas she was more of a goth.

I have read virtually, every volume of every encyclopedia you could ever name from a very young age and retained just about every bit of information I have ever read from them.

Funk and Wagnalls, Britannica. Compton's, World Book, Colliers, you name it, I've read it.

By the time I became a teenager, I was becoming a little less conservative, but still maintaining my intellectual pursuits, whilst she was gradually converting into a more closed minded and conservative person.

And in conclusion, I'd like to take this opportunity to point out, that I am 70% liberal and 30% conservative.

@hippyjoe1955 Liberalism is NOT a mental disease, it's a political party.

And if there were no liberals, there wouldn't have been the hippie counterculture that originated in the 1960's.