From Drudge:
Poll: Republicans Are Happier Than Democrats
Wed Mar 15 2006 10:14:36 ETThe Pew Research Center recently updated a question about happiness that the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago has been asking since 1972.
In every asking of the question, ROLL CALL reports, Republicans have been happier than Democrats.
Republicans tend to be better off than Democrats, and that is one explanation for the happiness gap. But when the researchers controlled for household income, Republicans at all income levels were happier than Democrats at those same income levels.
As for ideology, conservative Republicans were happier than conservative Democrats, and moderate to liberal Republicans were happier than comparable Democrats.
This is absolutely no surprise. You can see it everywhere you turn. Democrats seem to thrive on misery and complaining. The glass is not only half full, George W. Bush is hiding half of the water somewhere so poor, minority women and children will have nothing to drink. The sky is falling because George W. Bush created the hole in the ozone layer and hurricanes all by himself apparently by driving an SUV. Plus he’s religious and eats animals and wears leather. The savage! Perhaps they would be happier if they had something constructive or positive to present as alternatives to their unhappiness. For example, they could create a Department of Political Correctness that would ban and prosecute all speech that is contrary to their agenda. They could make only the top 50% of all earners pay 96.54% of all income taxes. Oh wait, that already happens and they’re probably all happy Republicans. How can they be so happy with the government taking all their money? Maybe they should take more. They could ban guns and outlaw the military. They could let everybody marry anybody they want to including multiple spouses and pets. All movies would be either Anti-American or about gay cowboys. I know what would make them happy, they could turn full control of our country over to the U.N. Drugs would be legal and everyone would wear tie-dye made of hemp.
Somehow, even if they got all these things and more, that there would still be something to complain about.
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