Why Are Conservatives Happier Than Liberals?

[Mike809]

I thought conservatives mostly lived in fear.
Thinking they are being persecuted by the government.

 

[Tribaligenesis]

Self discipline and self control. Liberals are more likely to chase their passions which lead to higher highs and lower lows

The absolute drivel that you just spouted.

 

[MidwestD]

Whenever I have the misfortune of seeing a Fox News clip/segment, all I see is pundits stirring up the rage and
fear that mirrors their viewers, I don't see this happyness that OP is talkin about

 

[Jx2]

Don't read the article. Just read the following statement: Ignorance (Stupidity) is bliss!

 

[Professor Emeritus]

I would be a lot happier if I somehow had the capacity to completely ignore injustice and all the ways the world is going to shyt and just be out for myself. That's literally not possible for me though, I can't even try it without feeling more stressed by what I'm not doing.


There's a positive side too though - I do believe that family and marriage and religion and stability all increase happiness, and conservatives do those better than liberals.

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

I suspect that if those trends aren’t already reversed, they’re in the process of reversing noticeably and measurably so…trumpism has taken over conservatism with its obsession with attacking all the major institutions has turned the right into insufferable super cynical whiny crybabies…woke culture won’t allow them to be bigoted pieces of shyt without accountability anymore ….social media and big tech points out when they’re spreading dangerous misinformation….measures put in place to slow and defeat the most disruptive pandemic and public health crisis in a century is the worst form of oppression they’ve ever personally seen…all levels of education from k-12 to especially college are indoctrinating their kids with their fancy book learning fraught with all kinda uncomfortable facts…the fbi, the cia, the ”deep state” is all out to get them…they can’t turn on TV without seeing non-white people in commercials, movies and tv shows about magical dragons

I could go on forever …but as America transitions into a multicultural plurality within the next generation, my guess is conservatives will have completely transformed themselves into an aggrieved persecuted class actively hostile against the system they were once so “happy” to preserve…and these happiness polls will turn on their heads

They complain about the most mundane shyt far too often for me to believe they're actually happy lol.

They can't even enjoy house of dragons and ring of power for God sakes

 

[Tommy Fits]

It's easy to be happy when just have to act like you have a conscience and not actually have one.

 

[acri1]

I would be a lot happier if I somehow had the capacity to completely ignore injustice and all the ways the world is going to shyt and just be out for myself. That's literally not possible for me though, I can't even try it without feeling more stressed by what I'm not doing.


There's a positive side too though - I do believe that family and marriage and religion and stability all increase happiness, and conservatives do those better than liberals.

Family maybe.
Religion is overall terrible for the world though humanity would be 300% better off if people didn't use religion to justify their BS

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Family maybe.
Religion is overall terrible for the world though humanity would be 300% better off if people didn't use religion to justify their BS

I think that's wildly unjustified, but not gonna argue it here because the arguments go nowhere with people who've already made up their mind.

For the most part, I've found that non-religious people who grow up influenced by historically religious societies have an extremely difficult time discerning how deeply their values grew out of their societal influences. And the societies I've been around where you could suggest they had ethical systems "least" based on a religious past were not places I had the slightest desire to live.

That of course doesn't meant that there aren't plenty of people using religion to justify their bs. But those same people would find numerous other ways to justify their bs without religion, as humans always do. However, religion is one of the few influences I've seen that can convince someone to choose against the bs even when it's their first impulse, and instead choose an option that benefits the greater society/community over the one that would be privately beneficial.

 

[Raphaello]

The absolute drivel that you just spouted.

Where did I lie? Liberals are free spirited follow your passion types. More likely to be drugged out, etc. Conservatives are the opposite of that. Live life with a sense of duty. Which may not give you the happiness that a child experiences but gives a life of contentment and fulfilment in the long run.

 

[Tribaligenesis]

Where did I lie? Liberals are free spirited follow your passion types. More likely to be drugged out, etc. Conservatives are the opposite of that. Live life with a sense of duty. Which may not give you the happiness that a child experiences but gives a life of contentment and fulfilment in the long run.

Conveying an image and that image being true are two different things. People are hypocrites and entailing their beliefs to you doesn't mean they don't partake in the complete opposite of what they belief to be true. Also your statement of conservatives living a life with a sense of duty is a misnomer, you're view in what a ' sense of duty entails' is completely wrong, liberals will feel like they're duty entails leaving a better and healthier planet for their offspring. I've lived in Canary Wharf, London and I can guarantee that the bankers and hedge fund managers I spoke to never felt a sense of fulfillment, the abuse of illicit drugs they partake in is quite frankly staggering. Their public image might be one of conservatism but their private life certainly isn't.

 

[The axe murderer]

I would be a lot happier if I somehow had the capacity to completely ignore injustice and all the ways the world is going to shyt and just be out for myself. That's literally not possible for me though, I can't even try it without feeling more stressed by what I'm not doing.


There's a positive side too though - I do believe that family and marriage and religion and stability all increase happiness, and conservatives do those better than liberals.

Couldn't be me

 

[Kornball The Conqueror]

They never seem happy when i'm around

 

[Raphaello]

Conveying an image and that image being true are two different things. People are hypocrites and entailing their beliefs to you doesn't mean they don't partake in the complete opposite of what they belief to be true. Also your statement of conservatives living a life with a sense of duty is a misnomer, you're view in what a ' sense of duty entails' is completely wrong, liberals will feel like they're duty entails leaving a better and healthier planet for their offspring. I've lived in Canary Wharf, London and I can guarantee that the bankers and hedge fund managers I spoke to never felt a sense of fulfillment, the abuse of illicit drugs they partake in is quite frankly staggering. Their public image might be one of conservatism but their private life certainly isn't.

Point noted. To be fair however I may have misread the article because I was comparing socially liberal and socially conservative types. Nothing to do with politics.

 

[Macallik86]

My initial reaction was that ignorance is bliss. Having read the article, I think a more constructive take on things is that when it comes to systemic issues, the average democrat is excessively pessimistic on the impact is has on them, and the average republican is naively optimistic about the impact it has on them. It does tie in with the correlation between neuroticism w/ democrats that the article mentions.