Maybe it’s some sort of mental gymnastics that “If you can’t get some dick, you must become a dick”.

The shark looks like it needs it’s snoot booped :3

How about understanding that “intelligence” is something that you, as a person, were not born with, but learned. If you are more intelligent that your “dumber” counterpart, you will also understand that they will likely have a different way they learn more effective, compared to how you’ve gotten so intelligent. And if you feel you can’t learn anything from anyone around you, it might be that you just don’t want to learn. Similarly, the “dumber” people might be uninterested in the subjects you feel are important for building intelligence.

Quite precisely. This of course would cause a “bubble”, but would also preserve their unhinged posts for the media to highlight.

And if they come to something like mastodon.social, many will mix up human right violations as “just your everyday political opinions”, and get the boot, so it’s more handier for them, as a party, to curate what the party represents.

There is nothing wrong with politicans using mastodon, and they will start using it when ex-twitter statistically show losing popularity. However, the same rules apply for the politicans, as does anyone else. That’s why they’ll probably start creating their own instances for their parties. And luckily people can decide to not to follow them (god I hated twitter when there was any local, or American voting going on. The promotional spam was unhinged).