Political "science"

No wonder things are so slanted. No wonder the "climate change theory" is pushed so hard.

I can't wait to see how you decide to spin this Veeky Forums. Have at it.

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First, "liberal" in America has a very different meaning than in the rest of the world.

Secondly, left-leaning ideologies and beliefs usually have much more theory than right-leaning ones. Which would explain why most people who study them appears to be leftists.

Finally, conservatives in the USA tend to have a severe anti-academic bias. This again explains why most educated people lean liberal.

could it be that personality traits associated with becoming a college professor overlap with traits typically found in liberals?

>nah

This. Professors are oftentimes idealists and prefer theory while not caring for a lucrative career. There is probably a hard intersectionality here between these traits and liberalism.

Their conservative counterparts are chasing money somewhere.

also, rejection of AGW in the US among the general population is fundamentally religious in nature. American protestants emphasize God's sovereignty above all else, so they literally do not believe that something bad could happen to the earth because God is in charge. They also think that global measures to mitigate carbon emissions will result in a tyrannical Communist (anti-Christian boogeyman) world government, and these fears have been stoked by the religious media for years now. Evangelical protestant America basically lives in its own world with alternative news, alternative science, alternative schools, alternative entertainment, etc.

>Professors are oftentimes idealists and prefer theory while not caring for a lucrative career.
>he thinks professors only income is their salary

Classical liberalism isn't modern liberalism.

Also, semantic drift.

Also, subjective political following.

How is this at all objective?

I forgot to add that you don't really see this in the European right, where environmentalism is more prevalent and the peculiar cancer that is American Evangelical Protestantism doesn't really exist. As an example, some French right-winger whose name escapes me wrote a book suggesting that European civilization should undergo degrowth (save for a few cities to preserve scientific and technological and progress) and revert everyone else to Traditional lifestyles in order to preserve the environment. You would never see this kind of stuff from American Christians.

If you're intelligent and ambitious any money you make in academia will be paltry compared to your potential in industry

if you're intelligent and ambitious you get "advisor" contracts from industry and cash in on your title while slaving away your phd students for research that doesn't even tries to hide that it only benefits the company you get money from