Easy to be happy if you’re a fucking moron.
Really? Because most cons and tepubs I meet are the angriest miserable people I interact with, constantly pissed at the most insignificant mild inconveniences imaginable and always finding ways to make themselves the victim
It’s both. Indoctrination is a complex bitch. I grew up (quite) religious and was definitely “happier” in some sense when I could just easily dismiss every real, major problem/injustice in life with some glib, simplistic talking point or Bible verse. To say nothing of the confidence and self-assuredness that goes along with “knowing the truth” and being on the “good side/team,” not like those wordly sinners over there.
It IS much easier and comfortable that way. Deep down, I was utterly miserable, but it took a long time to understand that and see through it all.
Yes. Stupid people are happier people. Conservatives are thoughtlessly optimistic about their own futures, even while voting to destroy them.
Ignorance is bliss.
Conservatives are likely just more emotional in general, their lives seem to be more dominated by emotions. Happiness, fear, anger, they just live in these extremes without any real thought about the reasons behind it. They just get triggered by whatever buzzwords the Party trots out for them, without any real mental analysis or realization of the manipulation that’s going on.
without any real mental analysis or realization of the manipulation that’s going on.
I see it as zero introspection. That might also explain the projection, hate, and bigotry that run in those circles; it’s hard to keep that up once you see where it’s coming from. An inability to introspect is also an aspect (among many) of narcissistic personality disorder, and helps keep that pain-train rolling.
Imagine receiving a research grant and your findings is: ignorance is bliss
Sometimes, the point of research is to experimentally prove things we suspect are true.
It’s easy to be happy when you’re a f****** dunce
I wish I was stupid enough to be happy in today’s world.
This makes a lot of sense actually. Conservative values represent upholding the status quo and at this exact moment that is how society works. So in the moment they see society following their values which makes them happy.
Progressives and Liberals are programmatic and critical of society and see things that could be better. That inherently makes you less happy with what’s going on around you since you can imagine a better world.
Yes ignorance is indeed bliss when it comes to being conservative.
Conservative values represent upholding the status quo
That’s liberalism.
Fair point. I should not have grouped Progressives with Liberals. But in the current US political landscape, Liberals tend to move policy forward even if they are only tiny incremental changes.
I should not have grouped Progressives
I’m not sure why people use the term “progressive” - it seems to simply refer to liberals that don’t want to be associated with their far-right cousins, but also don’t want to give up on liberalism (which has always been a right-wing ideology) and actually move left. Just sems like edgy liberalism to me.
Liberals tend to move policy forward
Not really. When people were calling for fascist institutions to be defunded, Biden responded by upping their budget and putting a thousand more fascist goons on the streets. That’s not “forward.”
Ignorance is bliss.
Yeah yeah. Conservatives are gormless. I already knew this.
The election cycle sure is fun
Oh yeah? And how many McDonald’s dollar cheese burgers can you afford with all that psychological wealth you snowflakes acquired? /s
Considering the microscopic ideological differences between liberals and their slightly-closer-to-overt-fascism liberal cousins called “conservatives” I’d have to say… this is absolutely much ado about nothing.
