Crazy to be Republican? Hardly…

A much better question:

Which party has more arrogant people in it who think you would have to be “batsht” (sic) crazy to support the other side?

Note: This result might correlate with the mental health results. When you get it in your mind that you are superior and your opponents are dumb, and then they still win - its got to drive you nuts.

Wasn’t it Kerry who said, “I can’t believe I’m losing to this idiot.” - That kind of mental strain has to take its toll.

Making you think there are only 2 choices is an intelligently designed construct.

But then when you realize that elitism, materialism, Darwinism, moral relativism, post-modernism, socialism, abortion, euthanasia, loathing of the religious, disrespect of America’s founding, the “living constitution,” the celebration of sodomy, speech codes … have moved mostly over on to one side of the political spectrum … what do you expect?

Perhaps it turns out that defending infanticide at all costs is not the royal road to happiness?

This sounds rather familiar, I’m sure I saw a report about a study into (non US I think) happiness in relation to socio-political orientation, can’t remember where I saw it though.

The study concluded that the more conservative or ‘right wing’ you are the more likely you are to rate yourself as happy. The reason, according to the study, is that people with a more liberal mind set tend to be more concerned (or obsessed) with social injustice and the rights (or lack of rights) of others and thus rate themselves as less happy.

GCUGreyArea -

Judging from some of your posts I have read you tend to the left side of the political spectrum.

I don’t have any studies to link to, so I am just going on anecdotal evidence from my life.

First of all, let’s admit that there are selfish people on both the right and the left who wouldn’t give the time of day to another human being. Let’s not consider them. Let’s just consider people who realize that there is something more important in life than the big ME.

Greatly generalizing…

. It seems to me that liberals are much more “concerned (or obssessed )” with the rights of “classes” of people. They tend to look more at macro scale problems. They look for government solutions. How can the government help this class of people.

People on the right tend to be more concerned with the person in front of them. They seem to much more take up the needs on a local level. They look for personal solutions. How can I be a help to this person.

I think the approach by the right of taking care of local needs is not only much better for society as a whole, but is much more rewarding personally.

Just my 2 cents

Oh the paranoia! The sky is falling, the globe is cooling, the globe is warming, population is exploding, famine is coming, AIDS will kill us, the theocracy is rising, the Republicans are racist, Bush is Hitler … Woe! Woe! Woe! The solution? All power to the state! And diminish the US and exalt the UN!

If you thought like that you’d be unhappy too!

“Social justice”? How does that differ from ordinary justice? It means socialism which means injustice which means robbing the productive to ease liberal guilt. There is no trickle down. There is no Designer, there is no free will, this life is all there is.

Traditionalists know what it is to love the sinner and hate the sin, the left hates the heretic and loves moral deviance. It’s liberating not to have to hate people, and the ability to distinguish between good and evil is liberating as well.

DaveScot,

As implied earlier, it seems like a lost cause to use one’s self assessment as if it were a fact. Both studies, while they constitute a curiosity, are factually irrelevant.

But for sake of argument, even if we were to suppose that Republicans have greater mental health than Independents and Democrats; that doesn’t mean that Republicans aren’t making an unsound or erratic decision in supporting Sarah Palin. As even the most mentally healthy among us, is able to make poor decisions.

Peter Schweitzer’s most recent book might be of some interest…

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/038551350X

Also, according to Johah Goldberg in LIBERAL FASCISM, the left has three primary legs to their ahem, political stool:

Identity politics, The Welfare State, and Abortion

I am a former liberal and changed my views after the ‘04 election. At least for me, the issue is rarely about the candidates, accept for the subsequent appointees to the courts; rather, it has more to do with how our society deals with truth ( in True Truth, as the late Francis Schaeffer said ).

Why did I become a conservative? Because I forced myself to answer questions raised by those three issues, among others.

I can’t say that I am that much “happier” today than I was three years ago, but I have far fewer intellectual conflicts.

The great fallacy about the left is how they really believe they are more intelligent than conservatives. I have found that when engaged in normal discourse with a liberal I simply have to ask them to explain one of their positions on one of the three legs noted above. I rarely take them all the way to their own conclusions because it would embarrass them. But take away the post-modern noise and they insist that their point of view is true. And when someone says that there is no objective truth they have simply refuted themselves.

I realized this and changed my internalized reference point to something, no, Someone external. There is a marked difference in my own sense of congruity, but many of my friendships have suffered because of this change.

Thanks for the post DaveScot.

http://www.uncommondescent.com.....ent-295667

Perhaps he should do something a few of us are already familiar with:

http://www.theadvocates.org/quizp/index.html

http://www.quiz2d.com

Since Democrats feel that our country is going down the toilet and Republicans are incapable and unwilling to work the plunger, maybe one party should immigrate to Canada, ay?

“Obviousness is orthogonal to truth”

If I drop a brick on my foot, I think it obvious that it will hurt.