Posted on 05/07/2008 8:19:07 AM PDT by chickadee
To justify economic inequalities, a person could support the idea of meritocracy, in which people supposedly move up their economic status in society based on hard work and good performance. In that way, one's social class attainment, whether upper, middle or lower, would be perceived as totally fair and justified.If your beliefs don't justify gaps in status, you could be left frustrated and disheartened, according to the researchers, Jaime Napier and John Jost of New York University. They conducted a U.S.-centric survey and a more internationally focused one to arrive at the findings.
"Our research suggests that inequality takes a greater psychological toll on liberals than on conservatives," the researchers write in the June issue of the journal Psychological Science, "apparently because liberals lack ideological rationalizations that would help them frame inequality in a positive (or at least neutral) light."
The results support and further explain a Pew Research Center survey from 2006, in which 47 percent of conservative Republicans in the U.S. described themselves as "very happy," while only 28 percent of liberal Democrats indicated such cheer.
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“Research suggests that highly egalitarian women are less happy in their marriages compared with their more traditional counterparts, apparently because they are more troubled by disparities in domestic labor.”
I love it. :)
(”Egalitarian” as defined as loud-mouthed, spoiled, disrespectful, harping shrews.)
conservatives are more likely to be in committed relationships and have children, which correlates with happiness.
Liberals are unhappy because they know they’re traitors to their nation and they’ve disgraced this nation’s heritage.
Liebrals are trained to b*tch, moan, and complain, all of which they have been trained to find as fun?
One of the tenets of liberalism is that anyone that has more material goods than you must be punished through the government.
Liberalism is envy, pure and simple.
And when you’re envious, you’re not happy.
Thou shall not covet - it’s for your OWN good.
Want to help the needy? Be charitable instead of relying on a government that uses bureaucracy and greedy “hacks” to
re-distribute wealth by FORCE.
Well it’s hard to be happy when you’re a victim of your own life and when you believe in an external locus of control. Besides, I’ve discovered most liberals suffer from what I refer to as “deficit thinking.” They tend to picture everything in terms of what it’s lacking, rather than in terms of what it has. That’s got to be depressing to anyone.
It's also about power and control. That's why they love big government so much. They have the unchecked ability to take your money and spend it to control people's behavior and assert power over them. People who need to be in control usually are not happy.
It’s the liberals’ insistence that all people are created equal in ability, drive, ambition, energy, talent that is their undoing . . . or rather ours, as a nation.
Not to mention that they just continue to b!tch moan and complain and never really try to figure out what they can DO to make it better. Conservatives are more action-oriented (after maybe ONE round of b!tching moaning and complaining *wink*)
Yes, the old equal outcome scam as opposed to equal opportunity.
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