Originally Posted by Suburbanite

what the fuck does this have to do with philosophy, wow your a moron

Originally Posted by BO Nafide

Conservatives are happier because they believe (right or wrong) they have both the responsibility and the ability to control their personal situations. Liberals believe they have neither the responsibility nor the ability to change their situation. They need something else (the government and charity) to make them happy.

Self-reliant people will be happier than helpless victims.

Originally Posted by Jack Robinson

This does not surprise me because they do not think about cause and effect. So fucking what if we kill people for oil is their motto. Democrats and independents have higher morals. Selfishness at the expense of others can make one have an easier existance. i am sure George Bush and Dick cheney are very happy. They do not not give ashit that he fucked you all over. Fat, dumb and happy applies to most republicans.Deep thinkers are happy yet often disturbed when faced with injustice to others. Just read here on this board and you can see it for yourself how they think.

Originally Posted by wow

Conservatives are happier than the jealous Liberals.
Liberals are eaten up with hate!

Conservatives Happier Than Liberals - Yahoo! News

Jeanna Bryner
Senior Writer
LiveScience.com Wed May 7, 8:32 AM ET

Individuals with conservative ideologies are happier than liberal-leaners, and new research pinpoints the reason: Conservatives rationalize social and economic inequalities.

Regardless of marital status, income or church attendance, right-wing individuals reported greater life satisfaction and well-being than left-wingers, the new study found. Conservatives also scored highest on measures of rationalization, which gauge a person's tendency to justify, or explain away, inequalities.

The rationalization measure included statements such as: "It is not really that big a problem if some people have more of a chance in life than others," and "This country would be better off if we worried less about how equal people are."

To justify economic inequalities, a person could support the idea of meritocracy, in which people supposedly move up their economic status in society based on hard work and good performance. In that way, one's social class attainment, whether upper, middle or lower, would be perceived as totally fair and justified.

If your beliefs don't justify gaps in status, you could be left frustrated and disheartened, according to the researchers, Jaime Napier and John Jost of New York University. They conducted a U.S.-centric survey and a more internationally focused one to arrive at the findings.

"Our research suggests that inequality takes a greater psychological toll on liberals than on conservatives," the researchers write in the June issue of the journal Psychological Science, "apparently because liberals lack ideological rationalizations that would help them frame inequality in a positive (or at least neutral) light."

The results support and further explain a Pew Research Center survey from 2006, in which 47 percent of conservative Republicans in the U.S. described themselves as "very happy," while only 28 percent of liberal Democrats indicated such cheer.

The same rationalizing phenomena could apply to personal situations as well.

"There is no reason to think that the effects we have identified here are unique to economic forms of inequality," the researchers write. "Research suggests that highly egalitarian women are less happy in their marriages compared with their more traditional counterparts, apparently because they are more troubled by disparities in domestic labor."

Originally Posted by polarbear31

my god does your thickness have no end, this is one of the most self serving pile of rubbish bullshit I have ever read, but it does a masterful job of explaining the cold hyprocitical heart of the right wing conservative , what this article proves is that if you weigh your conscience down with enough self interested ideals, and indifference to the world outside of your doorstep that in time you will begin to feel nothing for the plight of man and the imbalance
of justice that you will have no room for remorse or sympathy, if you really believe in this above article and value christian belief then you are much closer to being that anti-christ then you realize
as

Originally Posted by Virgil Kaine

You sound very Happy! Must be Ultra-Conservative!

Originally Posted by wow

Conservatives are happier than the jealous Liberals.
Liberals are eaten up with hate!

Conservatives Happier Than Liberals - Yahoo! News

Jeanna Bryner
Senior Writer
LiveScience.com Wed May 7, 8:32 AM ET

Individuals with conservative ideologies are happier than liberal-leaners, and new research pinpoints the reason: Conservatives rationalize social and economic inequalities.

Regardless of marital status, income or church attendance, right-wing individuals reported greater life satisfaction and well-being than left-wingers, the new study found. Conservatives also scored highest on measures of rationalization, which gauge a person's tendency to justify, or explain away, inequalities.

The rationalization measure included statements such as: "It is not really that big a problem if some people have more of a chance in life than others," and "This country would be better off if we worried less about how equal people are."

To justify economic inequalities, a person could support the idea of meritocracy, in which people supposedly move up their economic status in society based on hard work and good performance. In that way, one's social class attainment, whether upper, middle or lower, would be perceived as totally fair and justified.

If your beliefs don't justify gaps in status, you could be left frustrated and disheartened, according to the researchers, Jaime Napier and John Jost of New York University. They conducted a U.S.-centric survey and a more internationally focused one to arrive at the findings.

"Our research suggests that inequality takes a greater psychological toll on liberals than on conservatives," the researchers write in the June issue of the journal Psychological Science, "apparently because liberals lack ideological rationalizations that would help them frame inequality in a positive (or at least neutral) light."

The results support and further explain a Pew Research Center survey from 2006, in which 47 percent of conservative Republicans in the U.S. described themselves as "very happy," while only 28 percent of liberal Democrats indicated such cheer.

The same rationalizing phenomena could apply to personal situations as well.

"There is no reason to think that the effects we have identified here are unique to economic forms of inequality," the researchers write. "Research suggests that highly egalitarian women are less happy in their marriages compared with their more traditional counterparts, apparently because they are more troubled by disparities in domestic labor."