Quote:This is the kind of survey liberals loathe. Not that the rest of us don’t already know they’re the most miserable people on the face of the Earth, of course, but when the survey is the University of Chicago’s General Social Survey, an ongoing survey of Americans conducted since 1972, which The New York Times describes as a “widely used resource” and “the scholarly gold standard for understanding social phenomena,” that’s gotta leave a mark.

This isn’t some “agenda-driven,” Fox News-funded survey generated for the purpose of creating news and making liberals look bad. This baby comes from the no-longer-hallowed halls of academia. One can only imagine how much that burns the smug, self-righteous left.

Yep, conservative white women are the happiest people in America.

And the unhappiest people in America? Drum roll, please… the survey says… white liberal men. My initial reaction was: of course, they are; I assume the majority of them are either married to or in relationships with white liberal women. I mean, this is not a giddy crowd.

According to the survey, only one in five liberal men considers himself “very happy.”

Via the New York Times — in 2013:

The numbers on happiness from the survey are surprisingly consistent. Every other year for four decades, roughly a third of Americans have said they’re “very happy,” and about half report being “pretty happy.”

Only about 10 to 15 percent typically say they’re “not too happy.” Psychologists have used sophisticated techniques to verify these responses, and such survey results have proved accurate.

So, how is our happiness — or unhappiness, as the case might be — determined?

As the Times observed, it has been said that “happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” But now, says the Times, “social scientists have caught the butterfly.” After 40 years of research, they attribute happiness to three major sources: genes, events, and values.

So, researchers say, about half of our happiness is hard-wired in our genes.

And the other half? While many people assume one-time events — a “dream job” or an acceptance letter to a prestigious university — will bring the permanent happiness we seek, the wiser among us know better; jobs, promotions, “dream homes” — the list is limitless — don’t do the trick; they are short-lived at best and at worst, can even lead to a letdown and unhappiness — particularly for those who forever chase things in pursuit of happiness, only to discover that those things don’t make them happy — yet they foolishly continue to chase happiness through “thing after thing.”

According to the Times, in addition to half of our happiness being determined by genetics, about 40 percent comes from things that occurred in our past. And the remaining 10 percent? Researchers say it is under our control and that choosing to pursue four basic values of faith, family, and community, is our surest path to happiness that we can control.

As reported by New York University in November 2020, conservatives and liberals are motivated by qualitatively different psychological concerns, most notably those linked to morality, according to a then-new study that explored “how political ideology and moral values are connected to motivated social cognition.”

So there you have it, liberals. On one hand, you have an opportunity to control about ten percent of your unhappiness by the “values” you pursue, so in other words, you’re screwed on the entire 100 percent. On the other hand, if you weren’t bitter and angry, 24-7, you wouldn’t know what to do with yourselves. How much that must suck.

As our friends over at Twitchy discovered on Twitter, people have thoughts.

Journalist Tim Pool, who describes himself on Twitter as a disaffected liberal, commentator, and filmmaker, perhaps hit at least part of the nail on the head.

“Liberal men are unhappy? Or are unhappy men liberal?”

Great question. I don’t know the answer, necessarily, but it does support my “married to or in relationships with” white liberal women.

And “I’M A WALKER” made an even larger left-wing point.

“Aren’t liberals upset being called men and women?”

Yeah! C’mon, liberal “men”!

And these two guys hit the liberal politics nail on the head, bigly.

“[O]f course they’re unhappy. [T]hey spend all [their time] trying to find things to be offended by.”

With oodles of affirmation from white liberal women.

And:

“It’s because they are in a [sic] abusive relationship with politics where they are told 100% of the time they are the bad guy that causes so much pain for women and minorities.”

Amen. And a-woman, libs. Sorry.

And there you have it. I’d tell you to “hug a liberal, today,” but that would just piss them off. Wait — hug a liberal, today. And look them in the eye and smile the whole time.

Link

Conservative women are also better looking and actually smile.

(04-19-2021 03:05 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  

Quote:This is the kind of survey liberals loathe. Not that the rest of us don’t already know they’re the most miserable people on the face of the Earth, of course, but when the survey is the University of Chicago’s General Social Survey, an ongoing survey of Americans conducted since 1972, which The New York Times describes as a “widely used resource” and “the scholarly gold standard for understanding social phenomena,” that’s gotta leave a mark.

This isn’t some “agenda-driven,” Fox News-funded survey generated for the purpose of creating news and making liberals look bad. This baby comes from the no-longer-hallowed halls of academia. One can only imagine how much that burns the smug, self-righteous left.

Yep, conservative white women are the happiest people in America.

And the unhappiest people in America? Drum roll, please… the survey says… white liberal men. My initial reaction was: of course, they are; I assume the majority of them are either married to or in relationships with white liberal women. I mean, this is not a giddy crowd.

According to the survey, only one in five liberal men considers himself “very happy.”

Via the New York Times — in 2013:

The numbers on happiness from the survey are surprisingly consistent. Every other year for four decades, roughly a third of Americans have said they’re “very happy,” and about half report being “pretty happy.”

Only about 10 to 15 percent typically say they’re “not too happy.” Psychologists have used sophisticated techniques to verify these responses, and such survey results have proved accurate.

So, how is our happiness — or unhappiness, as the case might be — determined?

As the Times observed, it has been said that “happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” But now, says the Times, “social scientists have caught the butterfly.” After 40 years of research, they attribute happiness to three major sources: genes, events, and values.

So, researchers say, about half of our happiness is hard-wired in our genes.

And the other half? While many people assume one-time events — a “dream job” or an acceptance letter to a prestigious university — will bring the permanent happiness we seek, the wiser among us know better; jobs, promotions, “dream homes” — the list is limitless — don’t do the trick; they are short-lived at best and at worst, can even lead to a letdown and unhappiness — particularly for those who forever chase things in pursuit of happiness, only to discover that those things don’t make them happy — yet they foolishly continue to chase happiness through “thing after thing.”

According to the Times, in addition to half of our happiness being determined by genetics, about 40 percent comes from things that occurred in our past. And the remaining 10 percent? Researchers say it is under our control and that choosing to pursue four basic values of faith, family, and community, is our surest path to happiness that we can control.

As reported by New York University in November 2020, conservatives and liberals are motivated by qualitatively different psychological concerns, most notably those linked to morality, according to a then-new study that explored “how political ideology and moral values are connected to motivated social cognition.”

So there you have it, liberals. On one hand, you have an opportunity to control about ten percent of your unhappiness by the “values” you pursue, so in other words, you’re screwed on the entire 100 percent. On the other hand, if you weren’t bitter and angry, 24-7, you wouldn’t know what to do with yourselves. How much that must suck.

As our friends over at Twitchy discovered on Twitter, people have thoughts.

Journalist Tim Pool, who describes himself on Twitter as a disaffected liberal, commentator, and filmmaker, perhaps hit at least part of the nail on the head.

“Liberal men are unhappy? Or are unhappy men liberal?”

Great question. I don’t know the answer, necessarily, but it does support my “married to or in relationships with” white liberal women.

And “I’M A WALKER” made an even larger left-wing point.

“Aren’t liberals upset being called men and women?”

Yeah! C’mon, liberal “men”!

And these two guys hit the liberal politics nail on the head, bigly.

“[O]f course they’re unhappy. [T]hey spend all [their time] trying to find things to be offended by.”

With oodles of affirmation from white liberal women.

And:

“It’s because they are in a [sic] abusive relationship with politics where they are told 100% of the time they are the bad guy that causes so much pain for women and minorities.”

Amen. And a-woman, libs. Sorry.

And there you have it. I’d tell you to “hug a liberal, today,” but that would just piss them off. Wait — hug a liberal, today. And look them in the eye and smile the whole time.

Link

Conservative women are also better looking and actually smile.

Thus the reason they are happy. Homily people are rarely happy. Can you blame them?

uh, maybe I missed it somewhere but is this reporter math challenged? "Researchers say it is under our control and that choosing to pursue four basic values of faith, family, and community, is our surest path to happiness that we can control".

This is probably true. Conservative white women are the most oblivious people on Earth. Typically financially dependent on wealthy, Conservative men their world view is highly sheltered. It's fun watching their hypocrisy on social media. I have a friend that's the daughter of a well known professional golfer, last week she posts "If you are happy about $1400, imagine how happy you would be with a job". The following week, she posts a GoFund me for her dying dog.

(04-19-2021 03:43 PM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:  uh, maybe I missed it somewhere but is this reporter math challenged? "Researchers say it is under our control and that choosing to pursue four basic values of faith, family, and community, is our surest path to happiness that we can control".

And alpha male peen. They happy

(04-20-2021 06:14 AM)swagsurfer11 Wrote:  This is probably true. Conservative white women are the most oblivious people on Earth. Typically financially dependent on wealthy, Conservative men their world view is highly sheltered. It's fun watching their hypocrisy on social media. I have a friend that's the daughter of a well known professional golfer, last week she posts "If you are happy about $1400, imagine how happy you would be with a job". The following week, she posts a GoFund me for her dying dog.

^^^Angry liberal guy^^^

And a liberal commenting on hypocrisy??

(04-20-2021 06:42 AM)450bench Wrote:  

(04-20-2021 06:14 AM)swagsurfer11 Wrote:  This is probably true. Conservative white women are the most oblivious people on Earth. Typically financially dependent on wealthy, Conservative men their world view is highly sheltered. It's fun watching their hypocrisy on social media. I have a friend that's the daughter of a well known professional golfer, last week she posts "If you are happy about $1400, imagine how happy you would be with a job". The following week, she posts a GoFund me for her dying dog.

^^^Angry liberal guy^^^

And a liberal commenting on hypocrisy??

Well all he can get is a tranny so....

(04-20-2021 06:14 AM)swagsurfer11 Wrote:  This is probably true. Conservative white women are the most oblivious people on Earth. Typically financially dependent on wealthy, Conservative men their world view is highly sheltered. It's fun watching their hypocrisy on social media. I have a friend that's the daughter of a well known professional golfer, last week she posts "If you are happy about $1400, imagine how happy you would be with a job". The following week, she posts a GoFund me for her dying dog.

Anyone ever accused you of being overtly sexist?

What's the old adage? Ignorance is bliss?

(04-20-2021 10:12 AM)JDTulane Wrote:  What's the old adage? Ignorance is bliss?

The conservative gals I know are as informed as my lefty siblings and family. They just can put it aside and not make it as big of a deal. I think it centers on balance. Most left wingers are trying to fill a God sized hole they have within them with temporal stuff. Politics and their tribal group becomes their god.

Of course liberal "men" are the most unhappy. Maybe it's the soy in their diet, maybe it's the fact that they voluntarily emasculate themselves, maybe it's the fact that many of them don't even know what gender they want to be today, maybe it's because so many liberal women look like foul smelling wildebeast.

(04-20-2021 10:54 AM)No2rdame Wrote:  Of course liberal "men" are the most unhappy. Maybe it's the soy in their diet, maybe it's the fact that they voluntarily emasculate themselves, maybe it's the fact that many of them don't even know what gender they want to be today, maybe it's because so many liberal women look like foul smelling wildebeast.

Or---

E)all of the above

(04-20-2021 06:42 AM)450bench Wrote:  

(04-20-2021 06:14 AM)swagsurfer11 Wrote:  This is probably true. Conservative white women are the most oblivious people on Earth. Typically financially dependent on wealthy, Conservative men their world view is highly sheltered. It's fun watching their hypocrisy on social media. I have a friend that's the daughter of a well known professional golfer, last week she posts "If you are happy about $1400, imagine how happy you would be with a job". The following week, she posts a GoFund me for her dying dog.

^^^Angry liberal guy^^^

And a liberal commenting on hypocrisy??

From the guy who rants about the Libs all day. Irony.

(04-20-2021 10:12 AM)JDTulane Wrote:  What's the old adage? Ignorance is bliss?

I don't think suicides are high enough in this country. Let's just send people down the rabbit hole of misery. If you don't get fully consumed with thoughts of how horrible everything is, muh ignorance.

Maybe it's because in the real world most conservatives are perhaps a little like me. They're not too into material things. As it is I like nice things and sometimes I might make a remark about how nice having this or that could be. I can afford most of the things that I get a yearning for but it's just a moment thing. I find myself asking myself why that thing would make me happier and most of the time I realize that it wouldn't. That's probably something that Liberals dwell on, material things, I don't know maybe I'm wrong as I'm not a Liberal and the ones I know I don't know that well to say that, it's just a guess.

Maybe it's the fact knowing that as much as one may suffer in this world those whom are close to God KNOW where their destination is at death. I know and I believe because I know that God doesn't lie and His book doesn't either. The one thing that I'm sure about is the verse where it says, "to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord". That carries me throught life. It may be a simple verse to many and unbelieveable to others but I'm an entity and as such have my own thoughts and it really doesn't matter who thinks contrary to this.

I'm besieged with hardships right now, luckily none financial but I at least know that we all have to carry our own cross at times, sometimes for all of our lives as I know people who have had to suffer, really suffer all of their lives because of sickness or lack of needs. But. I know that one day those who have God in their lives will be rewarded in the end and I really feel strongly about this. So to those who are unhappy, try God.

This from a real sinner, believe me, who repented.