Giving New Meaning to the Angry Left
Republicans are 50% more likely to be happy than Democrats or Independents, according to the latest release of the Pew Research Center’s happiness poll – what’s more, Republicans are happier when factors such as marital status and income are factored out, and they’ve been happier every single year for the 34 years the survey has been taken. Read the details here…
I’m not one of those happy Republicans today – the Cheney smearing has got me hot under the collar. I’ve added several updates to my original post…
Hey, if you genuinely believed that fascists were in control of all three branches of the federal government; that most people in the world hate us; that our economy is collapsing; and that we are irreversibly destroying the planetary environment so that our grandchildren will live in a post-apocalyptic hell… well, you’d be a little unhappy too, I’d imagine.
Ignorance is bliss. TMS (R-MA)
How could Republicans not be the happier of the two. I get a big grin on my face every time I listen to Howard Dean. Air America is roll-on-the-floor-laugh-out-loud-funny.
It all goes back to the conspiracy thang that’s gaining more traffic on the far left environs – if you truly believe that nefarious forces are controlling the country’s every move and action, then it stands to reason that you’re going to feel helpless and quite a bit angry at the same time.
Not a good recipe for future electoral success, it would seem.
That’s really a striking poll, especially since it’s been that way they started the survey in 1972. It’s especially striking since that was the year of McGovern and the true beginning of the decline in the political fortunes of Democrats.
A small part of me wants a Democrat to win the White House in 2008, just to see if some of the bile from the left dies down and if the right, after eight years of listening to BDS, gives in to the conservative equivalent. I hope not, and I hope the fact we live in a more Google-able age means people will think twice before they make ridiculous statements when the political shoe is on the other foot.