Perhaps the liberal elites realize that they won’t be spared the gulags.
True, but it’s a good article anyway. I have noticed a drop in US happiness in the last few years, just based on observation. Once, when I would come back into the country after traveling abroad, I could feel a sort of cheerfulness or optimism in the air. Now there’s a sense of sullenness and almost oppression.
It is also the primary symptom of the "Half-Black Plague" we are suffering through.
This explains in one brief passage why leftists are so depressed, dissatisfied, unhappy, and hostile. As for his comments about the ex's wedding photos, I found the comparison surprising. I have never dated someone and then wished her ill. I'm always happy to see a nice person happily married.
America’s reputation as a remarkably unenvious society.
Perhaps because we were taught...”thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s goods” at an early age.
The entire Democrat political platform is built on envy.
Of the two vices, Envy and Greed, only Envy is forbidden in the Ten Commandments.
We need Cruz in ‘16. He is the only one who can destroy what this monster has done. Yes, lots of depression and anxiety today. People need jobs. People are resilient, and I’ve faith in this man to break the ties that are binding us and undo a lot of the destruction the Rats have caused during the Obama tenure. We need to take the Senate, keep the House and rid ourselves of the Rinos in cahoots with the Democrats and corporate sell outs. I don’t feel envy. I’m happy when people are blessed. What I feel is anger at those who would sell out this nation and it’s people .
My husbands father, with an 8th grade education and no connections, built a successful business. His wife's sister was an envious bi*ch. She taught this to her daughters who now have raise more envious bi*ches.
Recently one of this clan of hate filled women posted a nasty comment on Facebook about my husband. She ended the comment with HE INHERITED in bold print. My husband has never been anything but kind and generous to this bunch, paying for private school tuition and for the funeral of the original bi*ch.
This hateful attitude has now been passed down to 3 generations and it probably won't stop and YES they are ALL liberal democrats!
The left has intertwined envy and coveting other people property (a 10 Commandment for those who don’t know)....with the word greed. Greed is accredited with wanting more thru hard work, taking risk, but the left warped the word with the idea that those who have succeeded have gone to far, that its a static world, where if a person has done well, they’ve done well at the expense of another person.
That was the first thing I thought of as well when I read this article.
I know that I shouldn’t expect more from liberals, after all, when they view any issue under the sun, their analysis and understanding is often miles wide and nanometers deep.
I had a conversation with a friend recently, and I don’t really regard him as liberal per se, but he does have some liberal tendencies in various places. One of them has to do with money, which I don’t really understand.
It’s very difficult for me to understand, because he’s hard worker, he has a house, he gets to go on fairly expensive vacations, so he isn’t offering this viewpoint on the basis of his own experience.
We were having a discussion one day, and it involved some wealthy person. He began making statement after statement about the wealth that this person had accumulated. He said it was too much, said he didn’t deserve it, and so on.
I felt it necessary to point out the dangers inherent in his line of thinking. Here he is, pointing his finger at some guy who owns enough to buy his own private jet and yacht, someone whose wealth is far beyond anything we could reasonably hope to make, so the difference in wealth is significant. I said to him “You have to be careful about that. You’re looking at this guy who makes a boatload of money and saying it’s more than he needs, it’s unfair, or whatever. The problem with taking that stance, is that no matter how much, or how little money you have, it’s always going to be more than somebody else may have. If you think it’s fine to point your finger at someone who, in your words, has more money than they need or deserve, you better be prepared for somebody to point their finger you and say the exact same thing.”
That’s the problem right there. Once you go down that road, there’s no stopping. I was astounded to hear this coming out of his mouth, because he didn’t seem to understand that he could be the target of someone else because he owns his own house, and goes on vacations several times a year that most people would consider extravagant to some degree.
And that’s the issue with a lot of issues that liberals have opinions on. They seem incapable of reading the sign on their own back.
It’s almost hilarious, because many liberals, if subjected to that finger point of entry would be genuinely astonished and would say something like “Me? I’m not rich…” without thinking for even one second that someone else might view them as wealthy.
Depends. If you're a Democrat, the above is very likely true.
Published in a paper devoted to fomenting envy.
I noticed the irony of that as well.
It’s not envy, it’s hatred. Not of the megabucks Hollywood types, it’s hatred of those that Make and those that Take. The Takers would burn down their neighbors house because they are living well and working hard to provide better for their families. The Takers hate all who are not miserable and dependent, and if you are living better by your hard work and sacrifice— you don’t deserve it. I’ve heard it with my own ears from family and others. The Takers feel justified in any thing that takes away from YOU, they believe that you deserve to be miserable, and ANYTHING that hurts you gives them joy.
There is a reason why envy is considered a deadly sin. Yet, we have politicians whose sole tactics are to instill envy in their supporters against those who has been financially successful.
None of the seven deadly sins are ‘fun’. They all lead to death - of the soul or even of the body.