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Why are young progressives so unhappy?
Christian Post ^ | May 1, 2023 | Joseph's Backholm

Posted on 05/06/2023 8:16:22 AM PDT by DoodleBob

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The same could be said about adults, as best noted in this article written right after Trump's 2016 election:

.... What (liberals) really want is liberal Sharia law, a secular theocracy. The minimum wage, gender equality, nationalized health care, and global warming—whatever their practical virtues—are not just expedient policy prescriptions. They are essential aspects of the liberal fatwa. Feminism, deconstruction, and gender theory are not just academic abstractions up for discussion among liberal academics: They are articles of their religious creed. Question them and you are not just wrong—you are a heretic.

You wonder why the left is having a nervous breakdown in the wake of Trump's election? It is because, for them, politics is the means to secular salvation. This means that, to them, political failure is not just a setback on the road to a more stable society—it is a blow to their very worldview. Opposition to their program is not just wrong-headed, but evil.

This is why all of the excesses of these demonstrations—death threats, looting, violence—can be excused by CNN and MSNBC: They are the necessary extreme measures, justified in light of the threat to their ideology.

1 posted on 05/06/2023 8:16:22 AM PDT by DoodleBob
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Because they’re “trapped in the wrong body”, at least that’s what we’re told. Because they’re the product of a broken educational system, failed nuclear families, and progressive-dominated culture and media - would be my guess.


2 posted on 05/06/2023 8:17:52 AM PDT by bigbob
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"product of a broken educational system, failed nuclear families, and progressive-dominated culture and media"

A huge factor is the nihilism taught by the eco priests who preach "we have eight years left, then we are all going to die when the earth burns to a cinder."

3 posted on 05/06/2023 8:21:38 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone else…)
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Add in absence of religious faith, and you’ve got some pretty desperate people.


4 posted on 05/06/2023 8:24:16 AM PDT by drwoof
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They’re not getting laid. Don’t you know that? Sex with girlie men? Karens?

They hate everybody including themselves.

Is it too late? I’m too old to care.


5 posted on 05/06/2023 8:25:22 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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Today’s secular progressive has no such hope. Their joy will come once they’ve worked hard enough to fix all the problems. No wonder they’re depressed.


Trouble is that their ‘Fixes’ create more problems, and often, worse problems that the one they ‘Fixed’.

They will be depressed in perpetuity.


6 posted on 05/06/2023 8:25:58 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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They are unhappy because they don’t know Christ as their Lord and Savior; therefore they have no hope.


7 posted on 05/06/2023 8:26:17 AM PDT by bimboeruption (Trump = The best President since Washington. )
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As a result, the thing that makes young people liberals is not so much their belief in a social safety net, but their belief that we are in charge of ourselves — my body my choice.

No.

You have the wrong end of the stick.

Liberals believe that they are not in charge of themselves as long as one person does not agree with them. Every unhappy thought, every less then magnificent outcome, every drop of rain is because of the actions or thoughts of some one else.

Nothing is just chance. Nothing that is different from their ideal is to be met with a shrug. If it is different it must be evil and it must be destroyed.

8 posted on 05/06/2023 8:26:34 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Follow the money. Even if it leads you to someplace horrible it will still lead you to the truth.)
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They do not have a relationship with Jesus Christ. Period.


9 posted on 05/06/2023 8:26:35 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly." )
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probably because they’re not getting all of our $hit fast enough.

Where’s this communism they learned about in school and voted for? Houses still cost money! Damn...


10 posted on 05/06/2023 8:27:40 AM PDT by Sarcazmo ("Sarcasm is the highest form of wit" ~ O. Wilde)
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Well said.


11 posted on 05/06/2023 8:29:14 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: ConservativeInPA

That is absolutely right!


12 posted on 05/06/2023 8:29:33 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: bimboeruption

That is correct!


13 posted on 05/06/2023 8:30:25 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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Who knows? Who cares? But they’re going to be a lot more unhappy when reality dawns on them.


14 posted on 05/06/2023 8:31:16 AM PDT by Savage Beast (A wise man is a truthful man, and vice versa. That's the difference between a wise man and a fool.)
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almost three in five teenage girls felt persistent sadness. Girls are twice as likely to be depressed as boys, and one in three girls said they seriously considered suicide. This is a real crisis, and several factors are relevant.

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...and yet most of them will embrace vapid Left-wing philosophies and vote Democrat the rest of their lives.


15 posted on 05/06/2023 8:32:47 AM PDT by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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Progressives wallow in grievance, anger, and fear. Nothing in their psyche produces happiness or positivity. It’s not a matter whether the glass is half empty or half full, but rather that the cup is, in somehow or someway, a symbol of oppression.


16 posted on 05/06/2023 8:34:51 AM PDT by Right Brother (Democrats are 💩)
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Why are young progressives so unhappy?

They usually have a Public School Indoctrication.

17 posted on 05/06/2023 8:35:26 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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Because they are liberals. Liberals are perpetually outraged about everything. they would fall all to pieces if they didn’t have thing to rage about. They think th3mselves morally superior to others, even thouhg everything deep inside them keeps trying to tell them how wrong they are (its the holy spirit trying to convict their consciences- but they ignore him by raging at others in hopes of drowning out his convicting message to their hearts)


18 posted on 05/06/2023 8:38:53 AM PDT by Bob434 (question )
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They think they are unhappy now? Just wait until they succeed in getting everything they are fighting for, then they will really be unhappy


19 posted on 05/06/2023 8:38:57 AM PDT by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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Absolutely.
They unknowingly are at War with God.
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‘Abandon Hope All who enter Here.’
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The abyss awaits.


20 posted on 05/06/2023 8:40:59 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (The Truman Show)
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