Posted on 12/26/2021 7:03:04 PM PST by Rummyfan
They say misery loves company, and that may be why liberals always want to extend their control over everyone and everything—because they are miserable people. Thomas Byrne Edsall covers some of the survey evidence about the misery and unhappiness of liberals in a New York Times article back in October:
Conservatives Are Happier Than Liberals. Discuss.
Two similarly titled papers with markedly disparate conclusions illustrate the range of disagreement on this subject. “Why Are Conservatives Happier Than Liberals?” by Jaime Napier of N.Y.U. in Abu Dhabi and John Jost of N.Y.U., and “Conservatives Are Happier Than Liberals, but Why?” by Barry R. Schlenker and John Chambers, both of the University of Florida, and Bonnie Le of the University of Rochester.
Using nationally representative samples from the United States and nine other countries, Napier and Jost note that they
consistently found conservatives (or right-wingers) are happier than liberals (or left-wingers). This ideological gap in happiness is not accounted for by demographic differences or by differences in cognitive style. We did find, however, that the rationalization of inequality — a core component of conservative ideology — helps to explain why conservatives are, on average, happier than liberals.
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Why are conservatives happier than liberals?
It’s actually pretty simple. Liberals expect Utopia and they think that holding a certain belief or virtue signaling will get them there. Of course, it won’t & never does. Hence, they become disappointed and miserable.
Conservatives tend to see the world as it is. They know it will never be perfect, but they do what they can, accept it and move on.
No leftists IS utopia.
Of course. It’s an impetus behind all the ‘woke’ crap - it makes them feel good for five seconds when they tear down something or someone else’s institutions and replace it with fabricated history. But they wake up the next day, just as bitter and miserable as they were the day before, so they look for a new target of their pitiful wrath.
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I think it’s because the basic human instinct is to be against any form of slavery, whether it is by body or spirit, and that’s the fundamental goal of liberals - to control others’ minds and actions. Deep down, liberals know this despite all their lofty and harmonious talk and they cannot stand - just cannot stand - that there are people out in the world who do not want to be controlled like a puppet.
That’s how you get people like that insane Karen on the recent airline flight wigging out like a loon over a passenger who didn’t have his mask on. She couldn’t believe she couldn’t control things.
yup
its called making everyone equal (equally miserable)
And they want everyone to be miserable bastards just like them.
Yes!
“Is like Gorky says in Lower Depths, quote: Miserable being must find more miserable being. Then he’s happy. Unquote.”
The cabal are miserable people.
Not liberals.
Not conservatives.
The cabal. They’re miserable!
I know liberals.
Their core emotion is jealousy. They truly despise anyone that has anything they don’t have.
Funny how the cabal are the ones who are miserable.
Spot on!!!
Bkmk
Democrats -> liberals -> progressives -> leftists, communists, marxists, socialists, fascists, blm, antifa, anarchists & other scum, filth, sewage, garbage and subhuman trash.
Hillary is still mad she didn’t get her own plane
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