Yes, because when you are raised conservative, that comes with a lot of lies and indoctrination that some mysterious entity out there actually loves you and that you too can be rich like Bill gates or Elon musk.
Then you grow up and realize you weren’t raised or loved at all, just lied to.
The tiny differential (look at the actual numbers) between liberal/conservatives isn’t much of a story, but it makes for good clickbait and will help the researchers establish themselves in their discipline.
I think maybe the biggest takeaway from this article is that it points out that all seniors in high school have reported steadily increasing depression over the last thirteen years. I’m willing to bet this trend started earlier in the 2000s. And it’s right in line with more and more and more and more and more of all the available money ending up in the hands of fewer and fewer people. Everyone is more depressed.
Other studies have shown that conservatives are also much more ignorant than liberals. By the transitive properties, this is just confirmation that “ignorance is bliss.”
It’s easier to he happy when you don’t know how fucked up the world is.
Find things to do, kids. Get out into meat space and organize with like minded people. Of course it is overwhelming when you see all the problems of the world. Find something local you can do. Start a Food not Bombs chapter with some friends, for example.
I mean, conservatives go out of their way to know as little as possible, feel as little as possible, and help others as little as possible. It doesn’t surprise me that the group of people who think intelligence is weakness, also don’t have strong moral compasses or compassion for anyone else.
If intelligence is indeed strength, how the fuck did the smart-ass liberals fail to overpower the conservatives? Real liberals are way less intelligent than what we would like to believe.
I’m guessing you’re talking about US politics, where politicians are largely owned by the wealthy.
It’s pretty easy: Democrats are the good cops, Republicans are the bad cops. One takes away your rights while the other goes through the motions of fighting for them but, as a whole, they’re both “cops”. They’re on the same team, largely serving the rich.
Yeah, well when you’re so delusional you think climate change doesn’t exist, 10 year old rape victims should be forced to give birth and LGBTQ people who are oppressed deserve it, you’re less unhappy about the state of the country.
I think it probably comes down to how you’re raised. Conservatives will tell their kids black and white things. Something is either good or bad whereas liberals will try to insert the very real nuance into things.
Kids need things to be black and white when they’re very young because they don’t have the mental capacity to handle a lot of nuance, so trying to teach it early will give them a negative outlook on the world even if it’s a realistic idea about things. Where conservative parents faulter is they never teach the nuance, so their kids spend a good chunk of their adult years thinking black and white which is obviously wrong even if they’re happier.
A good tactic is give a positive, black and white outlook on the world when kids are young and add complexity as they go.
Ex: tell a young kid that cops are good people to call when there’s an emergency. As they get older, and the very real atrocious things they do appear on the news, you keep adding to the truth, so when they’re grown, and if they’re a POC like my son, they learn to be wary of cops, but still can 911 in an emergency. That you don’t automatically assume ACAB, but you don’t have to trust them, know your rights, etc
Devils advocate here, psychology is hard and I don’t have a clue. What if the basis of black/white is more of an institutional thing (such as Santa’s naughty/good list, red vs blue) and less of a “what a child needs”? As in, do we really know for sure that’s how proper development is needed to curb some mental health concerns? If the spectrum of life is more laid out in the fundamentals of development would that really cause the result we are seeing here?
In conclusion, we found that worsening time trends in adolescent internalizing symptoms from approximately 2010 onward diverged by political beliefs and were most severe for female liberal adolescents without a parent with a college degree. (bold by me)
I would imagine (not raised as a female) that the stark contrast of “what” you’re suppose to be (in regards to relationship expectation perpetuated by peers and media - the study used 12th-grade students), with the sudden realization that you must also be a “working person” in a seemingly-crumbling society could be highly impactful. Typically Males can maintain the same course of progression, as from earlier stages of life their “status path” (what society deems acceptable) doesn’t vary as much.
Maybe because they’re not delusional about the state of the world we live in that these right wing nut jobs seem to be hell-bent on making worse until we’re all living in a post-apocalyptic Gillead. I’m fucking depressed too.
So… hysterical and stubborn, unempathetic ignorance is bliss. Until it isn’t. Which is to say - until whatever toxic regressive bullshit they have entrenched themselves upon affects them directly.
Eh, I grew up conservative and I started swinging in high school (then admitted it to myself in college) mostly over gay rights, which were becoming more and more front and center debate at the time. At the time I would have said I was 100% straight and 100% woman, but I had gay friends and I wanted them to have all the things I could have. It was my first ideological break.
Sometimes it you, sometimes it’s the people you care about which get affected. While it might be true that people with low empathy might have to be directly effected, the reality is that for most people it will be simply gaining an affected friend. This is why college makes you liberal, by the way. It’s not the teachings, it’s the fact that you spend time rubbing elbows with real people who turn out to be nothing like the caricatures you were told they would be.
My ex-husband’s kid did the same thing. When they were in elementary school, they told me we should hate a celebrity because they’re gay (obviously parroted from their born-again mom and creepy youth pastor stepdad). Then in middle school, they made a gay friend and their mom threatened to make them change schools, and I think that was one of the first big wtf moments where their lived experiences really clashed with what they were told at home. It kept happening as they made more diverse friends and figured out most of us are just trying to live our lives in peace, not eat babies on the weekends at our interracial sodomy parties or whatever.
Now they’re a young non-binary adult who is full on pro LGBTQ+ rights, pro-choice, anti-racist, etc. I’m sure their mom blames their dad, but all he really ever did was be supportive and clear that in his house, bigotry wouldn’t be tolerated.
The progressive view of the world is a lie. Believing in the lie is mind poison because your going against reality and the progressive world view not becoming a reality makes your view of the world doom and gloom.
Lol oh yes the old 1000 genders that all the kids are being taught about in make believe conservative delusion land where all the schools have litter boxes for the kids that identify as cats.
Shame on the liberal propaganda machine for brain fucking conservatives into making up all this dumb shit to get angry about.
You are right about the virus too…you should french kiss everyone who coughs to show us how dumb worrying about being sick is! That will teach the liberals!
To put it simply, the happiest family I've ever seen in recent times was a couple of conservative couples, some of which were steel workers and some of which were factory workers in the local town. They all lived in the same town and got to visit each other for Christmas then share the day with all their kids together. A big happy family of like 20 people.
The couples? They largely meet at church. They also go to church, and have deep connections to their community.
The conservatives I knew were always going hunting and being outside and getting big ass fun trucks and running around doing their thing in little nearly idyllic communities.
Honestly, I think the prediction here isn't the politics, but living in a rural area around nature and without the city life and culture that comes with it.
These "ignorance is bliss" people are fools. Conservative groups have big big problems, but I think it would be a mistake to assuming there is no upside to those more traditional ways of life.
But alas. Churches are still rooted in lies and global warning is actually real.
Yeah are people out there in the forest flapping their arms to spread them over thousands of square miles too or is it because half the planet is covered in drought?
Obviously this guy is just trolling but the idea that conservatives (who one the whole are older and live in more rural areas with less access to healthcare) are more likely to be in good physical shape than liberals (more likely to be young and live in cities where there are wide healthcare opportunities) actually did make me laugh a little.
I dunno I mean if you look at their comment history it’s all “climate change isn’t real” and “why won’t the lefties tolerate my intolerance” kinda stupid shit.
As for the being in good physical shape comment basically look at any footage from any Trump rally and yeah… not so many people in good shape.
I can go on and on. Conservatives are also just happier since they get outside more, are more likely to be in good physicial shape and take on personal responsibiliy.
This is actually a useful comment in how well it succinctly distills all the batshit crazy conspiracy theories of the modern far right. It’d be useful to screenshot and put in a Wikipedia article on how propaganda takes over people’s brains.
Are there stats to support this? If I look at my family & my block it’s the other way around, with one household an exception but that household is a biracial deeply Christian household, so conservative in one way but not politically conservative.
On the rest of it, aren’t conservatives stressed over imaginary things too? Drag queens grooming children, liberals taking their guns, liberal indoctrination in schools?
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