I saw a poll a couple of years ago that conservatives are generally happier than liberals. And of course the sneering commentary from the left was "ignorance is bliss" or variations on that theme. But just based on my personal experience living in a deep blue state and surrounded by these people, those on the far left are generally miserable. They're always angry and up in arms about something or another. Envy and hatred will eat you up. So your life sucks. How is making someone else's life suck going to change that?
You mad?
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its because they dont have a frontal lobe in their brains LOL Lenny from "Of Mice and Men" was pretty fucking happy too if I recall.
I believe those polls like a I believe that Kim Kardashian is a MENSA member. All they do is rant about guns and the war on christmas and obama this and obama that.
However, Liberals have a lot to be mad about though. This country is being taken away from the people who populate it and the wealthy and special interests are getting the benefits while the rest can go suck it. The environment is being destroyed the oceans are being over-fished and dick slurper politicians dont represent the very people who elect them. Plenty indeed.
I believe those polls like a I believe that Kim Kardashian is a MENSA member. All they do is rant about guns and the war on christmas and obama this and obama that.
However, Liberals have a lot to be mad about though. This country is being taken away from the people who populate it and the wealthy and special interests are getting the benefits while the rest can go suck it. The environment is being destroyed the oceans are being over-fished and dick slurper politicians dont represent the very people who elect them. Plenty indeed.
Mr. Daystar
In a bell tower, watching you through cross hairs.
Yeah, I'm pretty angry. I'm tired of my hard earned dollars being spent on a war, that will solve nothing. I'm pissed at my tax dollars going to fund health care for lazy scumbags. I'm physically ill, at the way our Constitution has been used for toilet paper by an administration that lies about it's desire to make the country safer, when all it cares about is abusing the law abiding, while coddling the criminal element. It infuriates me, that 4 years were spent shoving health care down our throats, when the war should have been stopped, and our soldiers brought back home. It sickens me that the balance of a presidency has been spent trying to take away Constitutional rights, under the blatant lie of trying to make the country safer, but I see crime everywhere, but no one seems to want to take away their rights. I'm disgusted that several politicians past and present have not been prosecuted for the crimes the have committed...and saddened that the American people are to indifferent to do the right thing. Yeah, I'm a pretty pissed off person, and quite frankly, I couldn't give a craptastic flying flaming fuck, in a rolling dough nut what side they're on, or what there current status is, a shit load of heads need to roll, and the American public should be ashamed of itself for not trying harder to make that happen.
You forgot to mention all of the brown-skinned people. And the gays. And the women with the minds of their own. Treacherous bitches! They piss you off too I'm sure.
When I read what you just posted I can't tell if you're talking about Bush or Obama? Cheney/Bush abused our rights in the name of making the country safer. They also got their friends very rich using the same excuse. If Romney had been elected or McCain, neither war would have been ended and both had said they would escalate both wars. We'd also be at war in Syria and possibly Iran by now. AT least the economy is better. The US soldiers have stopped being killed. But I do agree with you that those wars went on way too long but let's not forget who put us there and then kept us there. Let's also not forget who put the patriot act into effect and when the NSA spying began. Long before Obama was president.
And you say that only lazy people don't have health care right? How about the fucking companies that no longer provide health care for their full-time employees? How about the 800,000 americans who file BK every year due to medical debt? How about the US being the ONLY industrialized country in the world to NOT provide health care to it's citizens? We don't pay employees wages they can live on and don't give them benefits anymore. That was once a standard deal with any full-time job. Not anymore. Takes too much profit to pay for things like wages and health care. One side wants to get rid of the minimum wage altogether and give people management titles so they don't have to pay them overtime and can work them harder.
As much as I don't approve of some of Obama's decisions he has been a fucking LOT better than the alternatives we had.
When I read what you just posted I can't tell if you're talking about Bush or Obama? Cheney/Bush abused our rights in the name of making the country safer. They also got their friends very rich using the same excuse. If Romney had been elected or McCain, neither war would have been ended and both had said they would escalate both wars. We'd also be at war in Syria and possibly Iran by now. AT least the economy is better. The US soldiers have stopped being killed. But I do agree with you that those wars went on way too long but let's not forget who put us there and then kept us there. Let's also not forget who put the patriot act into effect and when the NSA spying began. Long before Obama was president.
And you say that only lazy people don't have health care right? How about the fucking companies that no longer provide health care for their full-time employees? How about the 800,000 americans who file BK every year due to medical debt? How about the US being the ONLY industrialized country in the world to NOT provide health care to it's citizens? We don't pay employees wages they can live on and don't give them benefits anymore. That was once a standard deal with any full-time job. Not anymore. Takes too much profit to pay for things like wages and health care. One side wants to get rid of the minimum wage altogether and give people management titles so they don't have to pay them overtime and can work them harder.
As much as I don't approve of some of Obama's decisions he has been a fucking LOT better than the alternatives we had.
Supafly
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I think for every mad liberal in this statistic, there are at least two crazy Teabaggers ore Open-Carry-Loons and of course the always to be relied on for a little rant, the KKK and Nazi-Terrorists. The secret of evaluating these statistics is, some things and some people are just so natural for the country, they pass through not even noticed anymore.
Rattrap
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That comes from this study: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886913002778, which isn't a conservative versus liberal comparison, but a study of happiness plotted against right-wing authoritarianism.
Here's the Washington Post's breakdown:
The "ignorance is bliss" argument, while no doubt being thrown about by offended liberals, isn't without merit - being smart doesn't make one happy. In fact, the more aware of what is happening in the world one is, the more the balance between things to be happy about and not tips pretty heavily into the not category. Maybe that is or will be different at some point in human history, but I doubt that. That isn't to say that said offended liberals are correct in their cause-and-effect 'analysis' - just that the reasoning behind the saying is valid.
Emphasis added - this point has already been touched on a little, but I wanted to go one step further and correct my underlined points - remove 'an', add an 's', replace 'a' with 'the' and I'm pretty much right there with you.
But I've argued on more than one occasion that we only have ourselves to blame, as we keep voting in the same sort of people. When I try to argue for voting in a different sort of people, I'm largely shot down. So I'd go even further in saying the American public should be ashamed for not only not trying to make corrections, but actively campaigning to maintain the status quo.
Liberals should be mad, I wish more of them would get mad. For years the republican party has been openly and blatantly fucking this country and its people, and all the democrats seem to be doing is holding it for them. Idiots like white devil up there spout bullshit about the president trying to take away our constitutional rights, yet can't cite a single example, and nobody calls them out on it, because we've all just accepted that the right are ignorant, hateful assholes with no grip on the real world. And the supposed "liberal media" is no help, they sit around with their thumbs up their asses and try to blame both sides equally when it's abundantly clear where the damage is coming from. Why aren't we hearing more about the republican budget? The one where they want to abolish earned income tax credits and child tax credits and repeal the estate tax (which only affects singles worth more than 5 million and couples worth 10, and was paid by 20 people total in 2013)?
The more extreme these assholes get, the more everyone tolerates their bullshit. Anybody who is still interested in trying to pull this country back from the third world path that it's committed to needs to organize and stop the fucking republicans. I no longer have any skin in the game, my wife finally got pissed enough that we're out as soon as we can tie up some loose ends and sell the house, but sane Americans need to stop clucking their tongues and shaking their heads every time the right takes a little more. Republicans are the enemy of the 99%, democrats are supposed to be the defenders, but they're doing a pretty piss poor job at it.
The more extreme these assholes get, the more everyone tolerates their bullshit. Anybody who is still interested in trying to pull this country back from the third world path that it's committed to needs to organize and stop the fucking republicans. I no longer have any skin in the game, my wife finally got pissed enough that we're out as soon as we can tie up some loose ends and sell the house, but sane Americans need to stop clucking their tongues and shaking their heads every time the right takes a little more. Republicans are the enemy of the 99%, democrats are supposed to be the defenders, but they're doing a pretty piss poor job at it.
Liberals should be mad, I wish more of them would get mad. For years the republican party has been openly and blatantly fucking this country and its people, and all the democrats seem to be doing is holding it for them. Idiots like white devil up there spout bullshit about the president trying to take away our constitutional rights, yet can't cite a single example, and nobody calls them out on it, because we've all just accepted that the right are ignorant, hateful assholes with no grip on the real world. And the supposed "liberal media" is no help, they sit around with their thumbs up their asses and try to blame both sides equally when it's abundantly clear where the damage is coming from. Why aren't we hearing more about the republican budget? The one where they want to abolish earned income tax credits and child tax credits and repeal the estate tax (which only affects singles worth more than 5 million and couples worth 10, and was paid by 20 people total in 2013)?
The more extreme these assholes get, the more everyone tolerates their bullshit. Anybody who is still interested in trying to pull this country back from the third world path that it's committed to needs to organize and stop the fucking republicans. I no longer have any skin in the game, my wife finally got pissed enough that we're out as soon as we can tie up some loose ends and sell the house, but sane Americans need to stop clucking their tongues and shaking their heads every time the right takes a little more. Republicans are the enemy of the 99%, democrats are supposed to be the defenders, but they're doing a pretty piss poor job at it.
The more extreme these assholes get, the more everyone tolerates their bullshit. Anybody who is still interested in trying to pull this country back from the third world path that it's committed to needs to organize and stop the fucking republicans. I no longer have any skin in the game, my wife finally got pissed enough that we're out as soon as we can tie up some loose ends and sell the house, but sane Americans need to stop clucking their tongues and shaking their heads every time the right takes a little more. Republicans are the enemy of the 99%, democrats are supposed to be the defenders, but they're doing a pretty piss poor job at it.
Deepcover
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Blame the system...In any case you sound like a closeted conservative...A Kirsten Powers type:nono:
Mr. Daystar
In a bell tower, watching you through cross hairs.
THAT, is what makes you an obnoxious, bitter, little petty human being. It's pathetic that you have to do that. You should work on being a better person yourself, before you worry about anyone else. My post was directed at the fucking world, because to be honest, it would be better off with the dinosaurs. The fact is, you have no clue how this country would be, if any of those guys had been elected, and better then it was, isn't good enough, and the people that don't have it because of their employers, aren't whom I'm talking about, and I'm sure you are aware of that, as far as the medical debt, maybe if asshole would have fixed what was wrong, BEFORE he created the cluster fuck he did, it wouldn't be a cluster fuck. And not that it's any of your business, but my wife has a masters, and makes twice what I make, and I could care less, she deserves it.
Good riddance.
I for one an angered that either "side" of the aisle acts like they aren't after the exact same results, and I am saddened that most of the public doesn't see through their bullshit. Both sides want a controlled herd that doesn't make much of a fuss. They just use different tactics to achieve the goals. The loonies on the left think that they know better than you how to use the money that you earned so they try to control the herd with taxes and lots of them. The retards on the right think that they know better than you how to run your personal life, you know like who you should love and where you should go on Sunday mornings and things of that nature. They try to control the herd with laws and lots of them. Most of "the people" have been programmed to believe that you have to be on one side or the other instead of realizing that they have the power and the responsibility fix a machine that is broken.
Vote for so called "third party" candidates, call and write to the people in office and tell them what needs to be done. The one thing that doesn't happen anymore is reaching a compromise on issues. Politicians are afraid to say "here is my stance on this issue but if I have to make a slight compromise for the greater good I will do it.". Don't sit around bitching about how things are, do something. Make something happen don't wait for it.
Vote for so called "third party" candidates, call and write to the people in office and tell them what needs to be done. The one thing that doesn't happen anymore is reaching a compromise on issues. Politicians are afraid to say "here is my stance on this issue but if I have to make a slight compromise for the greater good I will do it.". Don't sit around bitching about how things are, do something. Make something happen don't wait for it.
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