To listen to some of the more fanatical climate change worriers, they seem almost to want global warming to happen so we can pay penance for our sins to the planet. Liberals are much more likely to believe that global warming will doom us than are conservatives. Giving a person a fish rather than teaching a person to fish leads to very different life satisfaction outcomes. But every study shows that work is highly associated with happiness. Liberals are less likely to be working and more likely to be on government assistance. If you don't believe in these things, you will likely believe in false idols, such as big government, as your savior. I'd venture to say that the love of country, God and family make people happy. It's a Grand Canyon-sized division between liberals and conservatives. I will toss them out, and readers can decide for themselves if they agree or disagree.įirst, liberals are much less religious, patriotic and interested in getting married and having children than conservatives. Why is that? I have several admittedly unproven hypotheses. Only 1 in 6 Democratic voters say they are "very happy." Almost twice as many Republicans say they are "very happy." The people with the most significant happiness deficiencies are Democratic voters. When was the last time you saw a funny movie?īut here's what's most interesting about the results of the happiness survey. People are afraid to laugh at anything for fear of offending someone somewhere. Don't you dare say an off-color joke or you will be banished. The "woke" movement has people feeling like they are tied inside a social straitjacket. Children are depressed because schools are still doing remote learning or they are stuck wearing masks for eight hours a day. Then there is the financial stress on families from everything being more expensive. People are still worried about their health two years into the pandemic that Biden promised to shut down. Then there is out-of-control crime and a significant rise in business failures (from lockdowns), both clearly associated with depression. First, there is isolation and loneliness from lockdowns, stay-at-home orders and travel restrictions. Gee, I wonder why the public is so glum all of a sudden. The happiness index is falling like a stone. Typically, almost 1 in 3 say they are "very happy," and now less than 1 in 5 do. Biden was even going to save us from the rise of the oceans.īut just the opposite: A survey by the University of Chicago found that record percentages of people in 2021 described themselves as "unhappy."įor most of the past 50 years, about 1 in 10 people have described themselves as unhappy. Every problem known to man would get solved by cradle-to-grave government. We were going to be a united people at last. Replacing former President Donald Trump with President Joe Biden was supposed to bring joy to the land from sea to sea.
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