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Argument from authority, intelligent people are not omnipotent, just because they have a propensity to believe in something does not mean it's correct.
Causation does not imply correlation, there could be other reasons behind why they vote democrat.
Continuum fallacy, intelligence comes in many forms, Sidis was good at languages but not necessarily ethics, philosophy, politics and economics. For someone with supposedly such a high IQ he achieved very little compared to his peers, he did not compose beautiful symphonies, he did not solve any mathematical conundrums, he did not start an investment partnership and become a billionaire and he did not develop a technology.
Association fallacy, not all intelligent people are socialist atheist democrats. Why aren't you looking into the intelligent people who reject marxism?
It is no accident that capitalism has brought with it progress not merely in production but also in knowledge. Egoism and competition are, alas, stronger forces than public spirit and sense of duty. In Russia, they say, it is impossible to get a decent piece of bread. ..Perhaps I am over-pessimistic concerning state and other forms of communal enterprise, but I expect little good from them. Bureaucracy is the death of any achievement.
- Albert Einstein
"A planned economy is not socialism. A planned economy as such may be accompanied by the complete enslavement of the individual. The achievement of socialism requires the solution of some extremely difficult socio-political problems: how is it possible, in view of the far-reaching centralization of political and economic power, to prevent bureaucracy from becoming all-powerful and overweening? How can the rights of the individual be protected and therewith a democratic counterweight to the power of bureaucracy be assured?"
- Albert Einstein
"An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion, soon degenerates. For force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels. For this reason I have always been passionately opposed to systems such as we see in Russia."
- Albert Einstein
"I didn't write that I was an absolute pacifist but that I have always been a convinced pacifist. That means there are circumstances in which in my opinion it is necessary to use force"
- Albert Einstein