Why are most nerds either Liberal or Libertarian and almost never Conservative? I think the main reason is that they only look at Conservative politicians (who

Why are most nerds either Liberal or Libertarian and almost never Conservative? I think the main reason is that they only look at Conservative politicians (who suck, but that's what you can expect from a democracy) and not intellectuals: John Kekes, Thomas Sowell, Michael Oakeshott etc. Scott touched on an important thing about this serene confidence stuff, but in historical scales, that's not how it works. It's always been Progressives who were so damned sure that their ways are illuminated by the Light of Reason and everybody else is a superstitious dumbass. And it was the Conservatives like Montaigne or Pascal who were full of doubt. Of course, when democracy became inevitable Conservatives had to learn to fake confidence and they usually did it with this faux Christian-Fundie-Nationalist crap because the average voter sadly needs some sort of a simple message, they aren't reading any books or something. But that's only a recent development, not older than a hundred years, approximately. On a historical scale, this self-righteous approach is mostly Progressive. Therefore, don't support a Liberal. Not even he doesn't seem to be as full of shit as Comte or Rousseau were. Not even if the recent post-Goldwater decades Conservatives became more full of shit (the religious type of shit) than Liberals. It might be a good idea in the short run but only makes things worse in the long.