Who's Happier, Liberals or Conservatives?

[del]

You should be - assfucker.

i always thought fat boy was a kind of harley, not a lifestyle, but looking at your avi, i see i've been misled.

Fat Boy is a Harley model, stupid.

It's slow, overweight, ugly and doesn't handle well.

Like you.

Grow a ******* brain asswipe.

you don't read very well, do you, fat boy?

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Who's Happier, Liberals or Conservatives?

Neither.

If this board is any indication? Libs.

True. The rightists here are one miserable bunch.

 

[BDBoop]

i always thought fat boy was a kind of harley, not a lifestyle, but looking at your avi, i see i've been misled.

Fat Boy is a Harley model, stupid.

It's slow, overweight, ugly and doesn't handle well.

Like you.

Grow a ******* brain asswipe.

you don't read very well, do you, fat boy?

Maybe he squirted Twinkie cream in his eye.

 

[uscitizen]

Prolly overall liberals are happier since they are not as fear driven as conservatives.

 

[Warrior102]

Maybe he squirted Twinkie cream in his eye.

Jesus - project much, asswipe?

 

[bobcollum]

Screw happiness, it leads to complacency.

 

[Warrior102]

Prolly overall liberals are happier since they are not as fear driven as conservatives.

Oh dear God.

You anti-war pricks are just at the beginning phase of meltdown. When The One is defeated, asshole fake-Vets like you will be jumping off buildings.

A good thing.

 

[uscitizen]

Happiness leads to all kinds of things like peace, love, contentment. Yep all kinds of things.

 

[Ava]

1. "WHO is happier about life — liberals or conservatives? The answer might seem straightforward. After all, there is an entire academic literature in the social sciences dedicated to showing conservatives as naturally authoritarian, dogmatic, intolerant of ambiguity, fearful of threat and loss, low in self-esteem and uncomfortable with complex modes of thinking.

a. …Barack Obama in 2008 who infamously labeled blue-collar voters “bitter,” as they “cling to guns or religion.” Obviously, liberals must be happier, right?


2. Wrong. Scholars on both the left and right have studied this question extensively, and have reached a consensus that it is conservatives who possess the happiness edge.

a. Pew Research Center in 2006 reported that conservative Republicans were 68 percent more likely than liberal Democrats to say they were “very happy” about their lives. This pattern has persisted for decades.

3. Many conservatives favor an explanation focusing on lifestyle differences, such as marriage and faith. They note that most conservatives are married; most liberals are not. (The percentages are 53 percent to 33 percent, according to my calculations using data from the 2004 General Social Survey, and almost none of the gap is due to the fact that liberals tend to be younger than conservatives.) …married person will be 18 percentage points more likely to say he or she is very happy than the unmarried person.




4. The story on religion is much the same. According to the Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey, conservatives who practice a faith outnumber religious liberals in America nearly four to one. And the link to happiness? You guessed it. Religious participants are nearly twice as likely to say they are very happy about their lives as are secularists (43 percent to 23 percent).

a. The differences don’t depend on education, race, sex or age; the happiness difference exists even when you account for income.


5. Fifty-two percent of married, religious, politically conservative people (with kids) are very happy — versus only 14 percent of single, secular, liberal people without kids.




6. In the words of Jaime Napier and John Jost, New York University psychologists, in the journal Psychological Science, “Liberals may be less happy than conservatives because they are less ideologically prepared to rationalize (or explain away) the degree of inequality in society.”

7. …conservatives do indeed see the free enterprise system in a sunnier light than liberals do, believing in each American’s ability to get ahead on the basis of achievement. Liberals are more likely to see people as victims of circumstance and oppression, and doubt whether individuals can climb without governmental help.

a. …about 90 percent of conservatives agree that “While people may begin with different opportunities, hard work and perseverance can usually overcome those disadvantages.” Liberals — even upper-income liberals — are a third less likely to say this.

b. …scholars note that liberals define fairness and an improved society in terms of greater economic equality. Liberals then condemn the happiness of conservatives, because conservatives are relatively untroubled by a problem that, it turns out, their political counterparts defined.




8. There is one other noteworthy political happiness gap that has gotten less scholarly attention than conservatives versus liberals: moderates versus extremists….People at the extremes are happier than political moderates. Correcting for income, education, age, race, family situation and religion, the happiest Americans are those who say they are either “extremely conservative” (48 percent very happy) or “extremely liberal” (35 percent). Everyone else is less happy, with the nadir at dead-center “moderate” (26 percent).

a. One possibility is that extremists have the whole world figured out, and sorted into good guys and bad guys. They have the security of knowing what’s wrong, and whom to fight. They are the happy warriors.




9. And none, it seems, are happier than the Tea Partiers, many of whom cling to guns and faith with great tenacity. Which some moderately liberal readers of this newspaper might find quite depressing.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/o...ppier-and-extremists-are-happiest-of-all.html

Conservatives are the happier of the two parties, and they make the best employees, because of their attitudes. I know employers who won't hire a Liberal, if they suspect them to be...

 

[Warrior102]

Happiness leads to all kinds of things like peace, love, contentment. Yep all kinds of things.

Then try some, assfucker, vs. blaming all your failures on Booooooooosh

 

[BDBoop]

1. "WHO is happier about life — liberals or conservatives? The answer might seem straightforward. After all, there is an entire academic literature in the social sciences dedicated to showing conservatives as naturally authoritarian, dogmatic, intolerant of ambiguity, fearful of threat and loss, low in self-esteem and uncomfortable with complex modes of thinking.

a. …Barack Obama in 2008 who infamously labeled blue-collar voters “bitter,” as they “cling to guns or religion.” Obviously, liberals must be happier, right?


2. Wrong. Scholars on both the left and right have studied this question extensively, and have reached a consensus that it is conservatives who possess the happiness edge.

a. Pew Research Center in 2006 reported that conservative Republicans were 68 percent more likely than liberal Democrats to say they were “very happy” about their lives. This pattern has persisted for decades.

3. Many conservatives favor an explanation focusing on lifestyle differences, such as marriage and faith. They note that most conservatives are married; most liberals are not. (The percentages are 53 percent to 33 percent, according to my calculations using data from the 2004 General Social Survey, and almost none of the gap is due to the fact that liberals tend to be younger than conservatives.) …married person will be 18 percentage points more likely to say he or she is very happy than the unmarried person.




4. The story on religion is much the same. According to the Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey, conservatives who practice a faith outnumber religious liberals in America nearly four to one. And the link to happiness? You guessed it. Religious participants are nearly twice as likely to say they are very happy about their lives as are secularists (43 percent to 23 percent).

a. The differences don’t depend on education, race, sex or age; the happiness difference exists even when you account for income.


5. Fifty-two percent of married, religious, politically conservative people (with kids) are very happy — versus only 14 percent of single, secular, liberal people without kids.




6. In the words of Jaime Napier and John Jost, New York University psychologists, in the journal Psychological Science, “Liberals may be less happy than conservatives because they are less ideologically prepared to rationalize (or explain away) the degree of inequality in society.”

7. …conservatives do indeed see the free enterprise system in a sunnier light than liberals do, believing in each American’s ability to get ahead on the basis of achievement. Liberals are more likely to see people as victims of circumstance and oppression, and doubt whether individuals can climb without governmental help.

a. …about 90 percent of conservatives agree that “While people may begin with different opportunities, hard work and perseverance can usually overcome those disadvantages.” Liberals — even upper-income liberals — are a third less likely to say this.

b. …scholars note that liberals define fairness and an improved society in terms of greater economic equality. Liberals then condemn the happiness of conservatives, because conservatives are relatively untroubled by a problem that, it turns out, their political counterparts defined.




8. There is one other noteworthy political happiness gap that has gotten less scholarly attention than conservatives versus liberals: moderates versus extremists….People at the extremes are happier than political moderates. Correcting for income, education, age, race, family situation and religion, the happiest Americans are those who say they are either “extremely conservative” (48 percent very happy) or “extremely liberal” (35 percent). Everyone else is less happy, with the nadir at dead-center “moderate” (26 percent).

a. One possibility is that extremists have the whole world figured out, and sorted into good guys and bad guys. They have the security of knowing what’s wrong, and whom to fight. They are the happy warriors.




9. And none, it seems, are happier than the Tea Partiers, many of whom cling to guns and faith with great tenacity. Which some moderately liberal readers of this newspaper might find quite depressing.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/o...ppier-and-extremists-are-happiest-of-all.html

Conservatives are the happier of the two parties, and they make the best employees, because of their attitudes. I know employers who won't hire a Liberal, if they suspect them to be...

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OMG! /tears

Too funny. God. I was on a call when I read that load of tripe.

 

[PoliticalChic]

This average Liberal is quite well adjusted in the happy-o-meter. Have been for most of my 50 + years.

Of course, those 50+ years covering the span of my life include times when I was a church-going conservative as well as after being born again as a life worshiping liberal...

Perhaps a better question would be, do people who describe themselves as long term happy also describe themselves as liberal or conservative?

I'll bet most happy people describe themselves as conservative when it comes to finance (I have no debt) and liberal when it comes to having a good time.


Just call me a happy independent who is currently leaning left.

Trust me when I say that, should a government ever blossom that promotes fairness and simplicity in taxes, public budgets that are balanced by law and transparency in all things politics, I'll try to 'conserve' that ****** to my dying breath.

'Till then, happy liberal it is.

Well....you covered a lot of bases there, Joey.....

You might be interested in Charles Murray's "Coming Apart," in which he writes:


1. The deterioration of social capital in lower-class white America strips the residents of one of the main resources in the pursuit of happiness. As per Aristotle, happiness consists of lasting and justified satisfaction with life as a whole. After careful consideration, it seems that there are just four domains through which humans achieve deep satisfaction, happiness: family, vocation, community and faith.

a. Family happiness is the same as a happy marriage; 58% of those in a happy marriage said their lives were very happy. This compares with 8% who said their marriages were ‘not too happy.’

b. Vocation is more than job. It can be what one does, or one’s cause…Homemakers were the highest proportion of people with high work satisfaction, and were very happy.

c. Faith. None of the data is as dispositive as this. The more attached to faith, as defined by belief and how many services one attend, the more self-described as ‘very happy’ with life. More than once a week attendance, 49% very happy; down to never attends, 23% very happy.

d. Community. The survey measures everything from levels of giving blood, to hanging out with friends, to participating in various groups and associations, to levels of trust, to participation in group arts and group sports, to the diversity of our friendship patterns. High levels of community involvement were consistently associated with “very happy.”

You're a lucky man.

 

[PoliticalChic]

1. "WHO is happier about life — liberals or conservatives? The answer might seem straightforward. After all, there is an entire academic literature in the social sciences dedicated to showing conservatives as naturally authoritarian, dogmatic, intolerant of ambiguity, fearful of threat and loss, low in self-esteem and uncomfortable with complex modes of thinking.

a. …Barack Obama in 2008 who infamously labeled blue-collar voters “bitter,” as they “cling to guns or religion.” Obviously, liberals must be happier, right?


2. Wrong. Scholars on both the left and right have studied this question extensively, and have reached a consensus that it is conservatives who possess the happiness edge.

a. Pew Research Center in 2006 reported that conservative Republicans were 68 percent more likely than liberal Democrats to say they were “very happy” about their lives. This pattern has persisted for decades.

3. Many conservatives favor an explanation focusing on lifestyle differences, such as marriage and faith. They note that most conservatives are married; most liberals are not. (The percentages are 53 percent to 33 percent, according to my calculations using data from the 2004 General Social Survey, and almost none of the gap is due to the fact that liberals tend to be younger than conservatives.) …married person will be 18 percentage points more likely to say he or she is very happy than the unmarried person.




4. The story on religion is much the same. According to the Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey, conservatives who practice a faith outnumber religious liberals in America nearly four to one. And the link to happiness? You guessed it. Religious participants are nearly twice as likely to say they are very happy about their lives as are secularists (43 percent to 23 percent).

a. The differences don’t depend on education, race, sex or age; the happiness difference exists even when you account for income.


5. Fifty-two percent of married, religious, politically conservative people (with kids) are very happy — versus only 14 percent of single, secular, liberal people without kids.




6. In the words of Jaime Napier and John Jost, New York University psychologists, in the journal Psychological Science, “Liberals may be less happy than conservatives because they are less ideologically prepared to rationalize (or explain away) the degree of inequality in society.”

7. …conservatives do indeed see the free enterprise system in a sunnier light than liberals do, believing in each American’s ability to get ahead on the basis of achievement. Liberals are more likely to see people as victims of circumstance and oppression, and doubt whether individuals can climb without governmental help.

a. …about 90 percent of conservatives agree that “While people may begin with different opportunities, hard work and perseverance can usually overcome those disadvantages.” Liberals — even upper-income liberals — are a third less likely to say this.

b. …scholars note that liberals define fairness and an improved society in terms of greater economic equality. Liberals then condemn the happiness of conservatives, because conservatives are relatively untroubled by a problem that, it turns out, their political counterparts defined.




8. There is one other noteworthy political happiness gap that has gotten less scholarly attention than conservatives versus liberals: moderates versus extremists….People at the extremes are happier than political moderates. Correcting for income, education, age, race, family situation and religion, the happiest Americans are those who say they are either “extremely conservative” (48 percent very happy) or “extremely liberal” (35 percent). Everyone else is less happy, with the nadir at dead-center “moderate” (26 percent).

a. One possibility is that extremists have the whole world figured out, and sorted into good guys and bad guys. They have the security of knowing what’s wrong, and whom to fight. They are the happy warriors.




9. And none, it seems, are happier than the Tea Partiers, many of whom cling to guns and faith with great tenacity. Which some moderately liberal readers of this newspaper might find quite depressing.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/o...ppier-and-extremists-are-happiest-of-all.html

Conservatives are the happier of the two parties, and they make the best employees, because of their attitudes. I know employers who won't hire a Liberal, if they suspect them to be...

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OMG! /tears

Too funny. God. I was on a call when I read that load of tripe.

Have you ever noticed how the most fatuous posters never really add to the conversation, or juice up the debate....


...they pretend to laugh at another viewpoint, as though that satisfied their intellectual comfort....

...let me guess: you're a Liberal.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Who's Happier, Liberals or Conservatives?

Neither.

If this board is any indication? Libs.

True. The rightists here are one miserable bunch.

Would I be correct in surmising that you identify 'miserable' with those who slap you around?

 

[edthecynic]

a. Family happiness is the same as a happy marriage; 58% of those in a happy marriage said their lives were very happy. This compares with 8% who said their marriages were ‘not too happy.’

Since there is about a 60% divorce rate overall, (50% percent of first marriages, 67% of second and 74% of third marriages end indivorce, according to Jennifer Baker of the Forest Institute of Professional Psychology in Springfield, Missouri.
According to enrichment journal on the divorce rate in America:
The divorce rate in America for first marriage is 41%
The divorce rate in America for second marriage is 60%
The divorce rate in America for third marriage is 73%) and only 58%of the remaining 40% of marriages are happy, that means only 23% of total marriages are happy.

So much for the crap about "family happiness."

 

[uscitizen]

Marriage can make you want to die.

 

[rdean]

I know who is more crazy PoliticalHic.

 

[Ava]

Conservatives are the happier of the two parties, and they make the best employees, because of their attitudes. I know employers who won't hire a Liberal, if they suspect them to be...

​

OMG! /tears

Too funny. God. I was on a call when I read that load of tripe.

Have you ever noticed how the most fatuous posters never really add to the conversation, or juice up the debate....


...they pretend to laugh at another viewpoint, as though that satisfied their intellectual comfort....

...let me guess: you're a Liberal.

And the Liberals with the victim mentality ( or did I just use an oxymoron? ) can no doubt, identify with one employer:

“Can you believe what they want us to do now? And of course we have no time to do it. I don’t get paid enough for this. The boss is clueless.”

Victims are people who see problems as occasions for persecution rather than challenges to overcome.



We all play the role of victim occasionally, but for some, it has turned into a way of life. These people feel persecuted by humans, processes, and inanimate objects with equal ease—they almost seem to enjoy it.



They are often angry, usually annoyed, and almost always complaining. Just when you think everything is humming along perfectly, they find something, anything, to complain about.


At Halloween parties, they’re Eeyore, the gloomy, pessimistic donkey from the Winnie the Pooh stories—regardless of the costume they choose.


Victims aren’t looking for opportunities; they are looking for problems. Victims can’t innovate."

 

[del]

Conservatives are the happier of the two parties, and they make the best employees, because of their attitudes. I know employers who won't hire a Liberal, if they suspect them to be...

​

OMG! /tears

Too funny. God. I was on a call when I read that load of tripe.

Have you ever noticed how the most fatuous posters never really add to the conversation, or juice up the debate....


...they pretend to laugh at another viewpoint, as though that satisfied their intellectual comfort....

...let me guess: you're a Liberal.

irony abounds

 

[uscitizen]

Ahh the victim mentality.

Keep us safe from terrorists.
They are gonna take our guns away.
They are having a war on Christmas!
Christians are so persecuted!

The victim mentality is not as one sided as the right leads us to believe.