Posted on 07/05/2023 7:34:50 PM PDT by jcon40
It may be one of the most surefire findings in all of social psychology, repeatedly replicated over almost five decades of study: American conservatives say they are much happier than American liberals. They also report greater meaning and purpose in their lives, and higher overall life satisfaction…. [T]he entire gap…equates to about a half-point on a four-point scale, a sizable happiness divide.
According to social scientists, here are four reasons why conservatives are happier than (il)liberals:
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Think Bill Clinton and who he’s married to.
The very core of “liberalism” involves being constantly mad and complaining about other peoples lives that are completely screwed up as a result of their piss poor decision making capabilities..
everything that pisses other people off, makes me laugh.
That’s why I’m happier than most people...
They needed a study for this? Just like saying “Women and men are different.”
Liberals seem to be angry at what they perceive as what is wrong with America. Conservatives are happy about what they see as being right with America.
And you can see that there’s always something for liberals to be angry about. For example with all this LGBT business, liberals should have been euphoric when the Supreme Court imposed homosexual marriage on America. That was a long-term goal that they had and they achieved it. But for how long were they happy about it?
Having achieved homosexual marriage LGBT activism moved the goal posts. Now there’s anger about alleged transphobic laws being passed to prevent surgeries and children Afflicted with gender dysphoria. Their new causes now involve shoving transgender status down our throats, and claiming that there’s transphobia and discrimination associated with the T in LGBT.
Environmental activists similarly give us no credit for all that we have achieved in cleaning up the environment since the 1960s. Aren’t they happy with how much cleaner the air and water are now? Somehow environmental activism, having achieved key goals, morphed into fighting global warming. Right now the environmental activists tell us we have less than 12 years before the point of no return.
With racial issues, to listen to some of these activists, you’d swear it’s still 1950 and Jim Crow laws are being enforced throughout the South. Here too , tremendous progress has been made, in banning discrimination , and allowing black and other minority people the full blessings of American Life.
But rather than any appreciation of that , idiot activists such as black congresswoman Cori Bush, are angry because we have not paid out reparations for slavery.
The liberal view of many issues, seems to be anger, that we do not live in some Utopia, rather than any appreciation of progress that has been made towards a lot of their goals
I seem to be guilty of all four conditions.
I would add an extra and that is raising “normal” children/
kids that inspires you to care for
someone other than yourself for no
tangible gains.
Sane people are generally happier than insane, warped, twisted people.
Heck, honey badgers are happier than liberals.
>> raising “normal” children/<<<
Great point. Looks like your pint is true.
May 23, 2023 article re: study done by Columbia
https://www.foxnews.com/media/conservative-teenagers-generally-happier-liberal-peers-study-finds
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