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Good question. Why are liberals so unhappy?
Hot Air ^ | 21 June 2023 | Alex Chediak

Posted on 06/21/2023 6:21:13 PM PDT by Rummyfan

Last year a massive study on the happiness of high school seniors was published. The study looked at 86,138 high school seniors from 2005-2018. It found that unhappiness was on the rise among these students:

Some other trends do appear. Men are happier than women, conservatives are happier than liberals, and ideology matters more than gender. Remember, we’re not looking at the same people as they’re aging. We’re looking at groups of 12th graders over time. The gap between conservatives and liberals has widened. That’s mainly because 12th grade female liberals are become unhappier faster than others at that age.

This isn’t a one-off thing among high schoolers. There’s been a happiness gap between conservatives and liberals across all age groups and over many decades. The General Social Survey (GSS) has been conducted in America every year or two since 1972. Republicans have always been happier than Democrats. Regardless of which party was in power.

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Neurotic people are unhappy, and leftist politics is designed to weaponize neuroticism.
1 posted on 06/21/2023 6:21:13 PM PDT by Rummyfan
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Because they’re offended by everything everyone does.


2 posted on 06/21/2023 6:22:43 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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Because conservatives haven’t been exterminated yet.


3 posted on 06/21/2023 6:24:00 PM PDT by cockroach_magoo (“Sure we’ll have Fascism here, but it will come as an anti-Fascism movement.”  - Huey Long)
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To be a liberal means you believe this:

God doesn't exist which means they have no hope in the present or the future

the climate will be over in less than 8 years

there are no moral absolutes

they've abandoned rational thought which is a by-product of the first one.

4 posted on 06/21/2023 6:24:17 PM PDT by ealgeone
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They don’t have God in their heart….nuff said!


5 posted on 06/21/2023 6:24:43 PM PDT by wardamneagle
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In related news:

AI finds conservative women more attractive and happier in photos

https://nypost.com/2023/06/20/ai-finds-conservative-women-more-attractive-happier-in-photos/

So yea, I’d be sad and depressed if I were ugly and stupid (liberal, but I repeat myself).


6 posted on 06/21/2023 6:25:23 PM PDT by packagingguy
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“At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child — miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats.” - P.J. O'Rourke
7 posted on 06/21/2023 6:27:24 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man.)
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They are neurotic because they want to live lives without consequence and do what they want. They refuse to learn that what they want will tear them apart on the inside.


8 posted on 06/21/2023 6:28:45 PM PDT by Jonty30 (If liberals were truth tellers, they'd call themselves literals. )
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To: Telepathic Intruder

They’re narcissists.


9 posted on 06/21/2023 6:29:10 PM PDT by lizma2
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They are in eternal rebellion against God. They cannot experience happiness.


10 posted on 06/21/2023 6:32:09 PM PDT by cdcdawg (Our empire of sodomy is failing as it should. How else could it go? )
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To: wardamneagle

This.


11 posted on 06/21/2023 6:32:18 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear ("Equity" = "All animals are equal. Some animals are more equal than others.")
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‘Ratism is a mental illness.


12 posted on 06/21/2023 6:33:17 PM PDT by Paladin2
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The core tenent of liberalism is to be perpetually angry at how people end up as a direct result of their piss poor decisions. A liberal, by definition, can never be happy


13 posted on 06/21/2023 6:45:45 PM PDT by eyeamok
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They’re malcontents. They’ll never be happy.


14 posted on 06/21/2023 6:49:47 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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“Good question. Why are liberals so unhappy?”

The reason why Leftists, in general, are never happy is because, literally, NONE of their great ideas end in nothing but misery and suffering.


15 posted on 06/21/2023 6:50:36 PM PDT by BobL
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They are unhappy because of any number of things. The sole main reason is others appear to be doing better than they are and they feel its unfair.

Underlying major category reasons:

They are unattractive (or werem but aren’t anymore) and do not get the perks and bennies the world undeservedly gives to more attractive people, so they tzke it out on others.

They are less lintelligent and cannot use their brains to make their lives better, so they take it out on others.

They made poor life choices but duck personal blame, so they take it out on others.

They have no idea what their purpose is in life and feel unfulfilled, have no idea how to figure it out probably because they aren’t smart enough to, and so they take it out on others.

They use things that happened to them, or things in the past that didn’t happen to them personally, as excuses for their failings and why they can’t get ahead, compartmentalize the anger they feel about themselves, and take it out on others.

Their values and what they think is important, are out of proportion and/or misguided or just flat wrong, and this is a source of conflict and internal stress they can’t get away from, and they take it out on others.

They realize they are just a little person even though they act like a big deal, and this is a source of internal conflict and stress they can’t get away from, and they take it out on others.


16 posted on 06/21/2023 6:53:58 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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Men will always be happier than women. Women will find a way to complain about anything. If theres nothing to complain about, they will complain about that.


17 posted on 06/21/2023 6:55:44 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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Leftists live in lies and suffer constantly from cognitive dissonance and the consciousness of bad faith.

Conservatives are sometimes wrong. (Even I once made a mistake, in 1973 iirc.) But they are usually not lying to themselves.


18 posted on 06/21/2023 7:13:36 PM PDT by sphinx
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Their piss poor decisions make everybody else unhappy.


19 posted on 06/21/2023 7:14:17 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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20 posted on 06/21/2023 7:15:38 PM PDT by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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