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An interesting review of the 'well-being gap' between liberals and conservatives
Hot Air ^ | March 21, 2023 | JOHN SEXTON

Posted on 01/20/2024 3:27:16 PM PST by TBP

American Affairs Journal has published an interesting essay looking at what the author calls the “well-being gap.” Essentially this is the idea, which is apparently fairly well known among social scientists, that conservatives tend to be happier in general while liberals are more likely to be depressed.

Author Musa al-Gharbi is a sociologist at Columbia University and he starts with a topic that I’ve raised several times recently: The fact that liberal teens are struggling with mental health much more than conservative teens, especially over the last decade.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: bloggers; conservatives; liberals; wellbeing
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To: GrumpyOldGuy

Modern liberals are indistinguishable from leftists. They are anythign but liberal (in the classical sense.)


21 posted on 01/20/2024 5:09:29 PM PST by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: GrumpyOldGuy

In my dictionary, LIEberal = leftist.

They LIE, and they certainly do not adhere to classical liberal “theology,” as you and the Grumpy Old Man point out.


22 posted on 01/20/2024 5:58:03 PM PST by Taxman ((SAVE AMERICA! VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2024! SAVE AMERICA!))
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To: GrumpyOldGuy

OOPS!

Sorry about that! Hastemakes waste - I thought I was responding to TPBs post.


23 posted on 01/20/2024 6:01:37 PM PST by Taxman ((SAVE AMERICA! VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2024! SAVE AMERICA!))
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To: TBP

Conservatives think about “how do I keep/preserve what I built” and leftists think about “how can I make others pay for what I want?”


24 posted on 01/20/2024 6:03:46 PM PST by Gaffer
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To: TBP

I worked for a die hard lib once. She had a constant scowl on her face. Never smiled or laughed at anyone’s jokes. She had no idea how to manage problems or people. Part of her position was to interact well in the community and be a leader of sorts. Instead she was an activist that went against the grain all the time.

Libs are never happy.


25 posted on 01/20/2024 7:03:02 PM PST by redfreedom (Joseph Stalin: "It does not mater how anyone votes, how votes are counted is what matters.")
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To: TBP
a sociologist at Columbia University

He lost a lot of credibility right there.

26 posted on 01/20/2024 7:14:08 PM PST by T Ruth (Mohammedanism shall be destroyed.)
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there is robust evidence that individuals’ political, ideological, and moral dispositions are biology-based and heritable to a significant degree.

If someone can be "born gay," then why can't someone be "born conservative," too?

That would make it a hate crime to say bad things about conservatives just because they were born that way.

-PJ

27 posted on 01/20/2024 7:25:09 PM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: TBP

Been like that since the 1950s at least. See tagline.


28 posted on 01/22/2024 9:57:44 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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