The Other Brooks Brothers and Their Sister, Too. — “Suddenly-relevant”

Well, a new study soon to be published in the professional journal Psychological Science claims that conservatives are happier than liberals.

Um, yeah. And?

Haven’t you ever watched Fox News?

Researchers Jaime Napier and John Jost of New York University contend that their “research suggests that inequality takes a greater psychological toll on liberals than on conservatives.”

They say this is true “apparently because liberals lack ideological rationalizations that would help them frame inequality in a positive (or at least neutral) light.”

I think that translates in to the overriding fact that liberal philosophy in the United States is steeped in what’s wrong and how wrong things are.

There’s blame instead of solution, and the whole time you can hear Chicken Little tell us that the sky is falling.

Everything’s wrong, nothing’s ever right, and there’s no offered solution to fix the problem.

If I were a liberal, I’d be a little bummed out too.

Thankfully, I’m on the other end of the spectrum.

The results add explanation to a 2006 Pew Research Center survey where 47% of conservative Republicans were self-described as “very happy,” and 28% of liberal Democrats described themselves the same way.

One of the most basic truths of the human condition was completely missed, though.

Some people are just happier when they’re miserable, and there’s nothing you can do about it.

– Bo Burdette