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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We're also more compassionate and charitable.
We are also grateful. No matter how much or how little we still manage to be grateful to God for whatever we have.
The purpose of liberals is to make everybody else as miserable as they are.
Conservatives tend to be more happy and liberals are miserable. Liberals don’t like happy people so they want to make them miserable too. The old saying is misery loves company. Like all such sayings there is truth in there.
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
My sister in law is a lefty. As a parent she’s very strict and nothing gets past her. She raises the kids in a very conservative manner. They’ve become well-adjusted adults.
Now think about all the successful big businessmen. They got that way following conservative business practices. When it comes to public policy they are very left. It just may have to do with other people’s money.
Is like Gorky said in ‘Lower Depths’, quote ‘Miserable being must find more miserable being, then is happy.’ unquote.
Conservatives try to fit into the world around them by changing themselves.
Liberals try to change the world around them to fit themselves.
The conservative model doesn’t always work, but the liberal model never works.
They are unhappy because their approach never works.
“conservatives seek agreement while liberals demand compliance” L.Star
A man tried to change the world. He was unsuccessful.
So he tried to change his country. He was unsuccessful.
So he tried to change his community. He was unsuccessful.
So he tried to change his street. Again, he was unsuccessful.
So he tried to change his family. Still, he was unsuccessful.
So he tried to change himself — and he was successful.
And that changed his family.
And his family changed the street.
And the street changed the community.
And the community changed the country.
And the country changed the world.
The liberal couldn’t change jimself, so he changed the subject
Well said.
That’s correct.
That’s true.
All the more reason to dislike them with a burning 🔥 passion
AND, we conservatives are not jealous of people’s success! We applaud hard work and successs! We want EVERYONE to succeed, and be a contributor to our society’s progress!
LIEberls, OTOH, seeth with rage and jealousy whenever one of us succeeds! Ans spend enormous amounts of time and energy trying to take it away!
LIEberals are REALLY SICK PEOPLE!
Michael Savage: “Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder.”
Leftists, not liberals. Liberal implies tolerance, and they are NOT tolerant of anything they don’t approve of, they try to destroy it at all cost. Do t use the term they like to call themselves.
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