absolutely educational level has little to do with choice of political persuasion or with what is a form of individual or social psychosis
highly intelligent people are just as likely to be stubbornly certain they are right as less intelligent people. Those on the spectrum, which I understand to have been the case for one of the brothers, are often characterised by their resistance to other intellectual input and their challenges with processing social cues and information.
someone earlier on the thread referred to a tendency humans have to form groups and then to be anti other groups. Germany in that awful period was a good example and given the consequences of not belonging to the dominant group silence and acquiescence supported fervent membership
that’s more like hotcopper behaviour than that of the gang of three
