Why conservatives are happier than liberals

World Net Daily ^ | 23 November 2010 | Dennis Prager

[jda]

"According to polls . . . and studies . . ., conservative Americans are happier than liberal Americans.

". . . conservatives on the same socioeconomic level as liberals give more charity and volunteer more time than do liberals. And . . . for at least a half-century, conservatives have been far more willing to sacrifice American treasure and American blood (often their own) for other nations' liberty.

"The upshot of all this? There is an amazingly simple way to defeat the left: Raise children who are grateful to be American, who don't complain, who can handle losing and who are guided by values, not feelings. In other words, teach them how to be happy adults."

[jda]

We've always known this to be true - now here is proof and some reasons why.

[RINOS ARE RADICALS]

The Lord in our hearts..

[Moose Burger]

Because conservatives pay their dues at time and don’t have to look for excuses and make themselves victims when things crash down. That’s what “being captain of his own ship” means.

[Traveler59]

As my Mother did, you raise children with a strong measure of discipline along with a double measure of love and understanding. It got all 6 of us through the turbulent times of the 1960’s.

[Baynative]

I live near a very liberal small town strongly populated by aging hippies. They not only seem less happy than folks in other communities around here, many of them are noticeably angry much of the time, thought I don't know why. They have their way in all elections. They control every facet of our governmental administration from the state to the county and of course their city.

Still, there are not many smiles to be seen in the politically powerful town of peace, love and diversity.

[The Comedian]

We invented Thanksgiving, where we celebrate the blessings that God so mercifully bestows upon us every day of our lives.

They invented gay pride parades, where they celebrate sodomy and complaining about the insufficiency of Federal AIDS funding.

Do the math.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[ottbmare]

So true. The WHIIIIIIning that liberals do is unbelievable. I can tell which of my FB “friends” is liberal and which conservative by the whine level in their postings. Among coworkers and neighbors, too. Whining has a strong positive correlation with liberalism.

[Jeff Winston]

The problem with this is that there are PLENTY of really unhappy people growing up, and plenty who are being taught the leftist worldview.

[goldstategop]

A leftist is unhappy because life is never as good as you want it to be. A conservative accepts life is imperfect, the world is not going to change as much we would like it to and one has to be happy because in spite of those things, life is good.