This makes sense. You can make terrible personal decisions (ie, starting a meth habit, fighting a bear) at any intelligence level. But to make poor decisions o

This makes sense. You can make terrible personal decisions (ie, starting a meth habit, fighting a bear) at any intelligence level. But to make poor decisions on a scale that affects many others, you generally need the intelligence to rise to some level of power. (There are of course exceptions, like starting a brushfire, etc)