It is incredibly insulting to neanderthals to make an unsubstantiated comparison between them and politicians.

Probably the opposite of that- it seems likely that neanderthals were physically stronger, and may have even been smarter as well but we killed them off because we had more of the type of traits you're stereotyping them with: humans band together in large groups and systematically eliminate our competition through organized war/violence, politics, etc.

I think it's pretty ironic that humans have formed a cultural idea of us being superior to Neanderthals based on stereotyping them as having traits that are actually more characteristic of us.

"Projections change the world into the replica of one's own unknown face." -Carl Jung

I think it is likely that politics is exactly the type of stuff where Homo sapiens outperforms Neanderthals.

Now now. No need for that.

We actually have no idea if the IQ of Neanderthals is much higher than our own, so shrug?

23andMe says that I have more Neanderthal genes than 85% of their customers. I do not work in Politics or in Boardrooms.

Time for a career change?

Yet