re: Why most academics lean left

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These 'intellectuals' are caught up in the group-think that = "if only the world worked this way, everything would be easy." They are constantly looking for the anti-gravity machine or the perpetual motion system.
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this isn't even really true

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Can't tell what your emphasis is here - I was using the anti-gravity machine as a metaphor not asserting that specifically what they are doing.

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what these academics primarily rely upon to create novelty is deconstruction practices. they're trying to attack societal foundations and accepted beliefs so that they can get those ideas published. this is why they latch onto overlapping ideas like postmodernism, b/c much of that philosophy is a similar deconstruction (of truth, on a much more general level)

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I think we are on the same page here, but I hesitate to delve into subjects such as 'postmodernism' - I am not smart enough for that.

My overall point in this entire thread is to differentiate between people who know a lot about a very limited subject matter as being "smarter" than an ordinary person who is providing for himself quite well in spite of having no certified 'college education' e.g. a welder.

I made the observation that a 'genders studies' graduate is not necessarily 'smarter' than a welder.

I hold to my belief that "__________ studies" is pretty much worthless unless you are trying to impress some ideological - rather than real world - adherents. Personally I think that is dumb, far from being smart. And I think anyone who desires to pursue such a degree is not very smart - they may become highly 'educated' in the foundations of the ideology and may learn a lot of rhetorical flourishes to regurgitate instead of debating anyone who disagrees with them - but I view that as the opposite of 'smart.'

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they're trying to attack societal foundations and accepted beliefs

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This is obviously their objective - tear down anything that got the country to the successful and moral status we enjoy - then take over the reins of power to rule over what others built.

I am of the belief that cultural changes ought to occur naturally, over periods of time - certainly not by legislation or fiat.

Just pondering the number of 'progressive' cultural 'advancements' that have popped up withn the past decade is enough to raise alarm bells with me - and to devote entire academic courses that search for ever more 'ways we can improve' society is the opposite of 'smart.'

It is dystopian.