That statement is believable. How could a liberal possibly be happier than a conservative? How could anyone shouldering the constant and unrelenting gloom and doom burden each day be happy? How could anyone spend each day seeking the womb to tomb care they feel they so richly deserve be happy? I’m surprised they are even able to sleep at night.
This has been the party line since Hofstadter’s work in the 1950s.
Liberals ate unhappy because they are irrational. The source and means of knowledge for them is empathy which is equivalent to emotionalism rather than reason.
Conservatives do care about many things, such as the morals of their children, the rights of the unborn, what is taught in our schools, the victims of crimes, the effects on our society of sex, drugs, and violence, and the protection of our rights against foreign forces who want to harm us.
Proof of the thesis is all the private charity that is indulged in by conservatives. If they actually cared about other people they would tax away all peoples’s assets and income to redistribute to everyone in a fair allocation as determined by properly educated experts.
Love is a word that is constantly heard,
Hate is a word that is not.
Love, I am told, is more precious than gold.
Love, I have read, is hot.
But hate is the verb that to me is superb,
And Love but a drug on the mart.
Any kiddie in school can love like a fool,
But Hating, my boy, is an Art.
— Ogden Nash
Teeny!
You didn’t tell me you were famous!