MY THEORY ABOUT THESE LINKS:

Link-oriented citizens and politicians are less educated or less intelligent than others.
I myself am not politically engaged and have no intention of becoming so. I’m probably the least politically interested author on your timeline. What I can do pretty well, however, is observe.
Because I still have points of contact with certain political topics in order to protect my portfolio, I unfortunately have to deal with them more and more often, against my will.
As for my thesis:
Up to today, I always recognize the same pattern whenever I talk with a private person from the left wing corner, or listen to a left-oriented politician. The ideas are usually very grand and also seem very noble at first glance, shaped by morality and ethics, which basically seems positive.
What I keep noticing again and again is this: the moment the concrete implementation of these ideas would need to be explained, there’s a yawning void. Then the same stock phrases always come up:
“We’ll have to look into that then.”
“Someone will have to take care of that later.”
“We can’t say exactly yet.”
For me, this does not just represent detached thinking, but also a lack of intelligence. For me, intelligence means the ability to understand complex information, process it logically, think through problems down to the very last detail, and adapt to new situations.
That’s exactly what I can only very rarely observe in people with a strongly left-leaning political orientation. Often it’s thought through until shortly before the end, but the crucial questions for practical implementation remain unanswered.
With this statement, I explicitly do not want to promote the other political spectrum. I merely want to say that I consider it very unlikely for a highly intelligent person to be permanently left-oriented.