Why The Right Is Happier Than The Left
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Over at the WAPO, they’re trying to figure out why Republicans are happier than Democrats,
A 2006 Pew Research poll found that 45 percent of Republicans describe themselves as “very happy,” compared with only 30 percent of Democrats (and 29 percent of independents). This is a sizable gap and a remarkably consistent one, too. Republicans have been happier than Democrats every year since the General Social Survey, conducted biannually by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, began asking about happiness in 1972.
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There are at least four reasons why the Right is happier than the Left.
1) Church and marriage, along with the attitudes and lifestyle changes that go along with those two things, which the article mentioned.
2) Conservative ideas generally work very well while the Left’s don’t. It’s hard to be happy when your belief system is constantly being proven wrong in the real world, but you’re not flexible enough to change.
3) Liberalism is, by its very nature these days, an extremely pessimistic, miserable philosophy. It assumes that half the country is not just wrong, but evil. It encourages hatred for successful people. It pits groups of people against each other in race, class, and gender warfare. It’s just non-stop negativity, 24x7.
4) You want to be unhappy in life? Have a problem and wait around for the federal government to fix it. You want to have a chance to be happy? Take personal responsibility for your problems and work to take care of yourself. People who believe they have control of their own life, not that their fate is in the hands of others, are happier people because they accomplish much more in life.
True that.