{"id":468932,"date":"2022-06-30T00:29:16","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T21:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/liberals-more-likely-to-be-maladjusted-wet-blankets-proof\/"},"modified":"2022-06-30T00:29:16","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T21:29:16","slug":"liberals-more-likely-to-be-maladjusted-wet-blankets-proof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/liberals-more-likely-to-be-maladjusted-wet-blankets-proof\/","title":{"rendered":"#Liberals more likely to be maladjusted wet blankets: proof"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4448654c799\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4448654c799\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/liberals-more-likely-to-be-maladjusted-wet-blankets-proof\/#%E2%80%9CLiberals_more_likely_to_be_maladjusted_wet_blankets_proof%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Liberals more likely to be maladjusted wet blankets: proof&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CLiberals_more_likely_to_be_maladjusted_wet_blankets_proof%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Liberals more likely to be maladjusted wet blankets: proof&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Liberals and Democrats will never know the absolute crippling anxiety experienced by right-wingers and otherwise normal people in <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> gatherings whenever politics or even mildly debatable topics come up. Although the average person would rather skip an argument and keep the party going with more pleasant subjects, liberals and Democrats readily leap at the opportunity to tell you exactly how they feel, and, sorry, but if it\u2019s a problem,\u00a0<em>get lost<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What they have to say ruins the mood? Oh well! If you don\u2019t like it, you\u2019re wrong and, worse, a bad person who should feel very, very uncomfortable having shown up in the first place. And that\u2019s a best-case scenario. If you were to actually dispute what a liberal says, even in good nature, look forward to suffering while the bitter nag gives you disgusted glances the rest of the evening and holds the incident against you for the rest of your life.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By contrast, right-leaning Republicans and independents tend to keep their mouths on mute when in mixed company. It\u2019s preciously na\u00efve because it\u2019s not enough. Leftists are miserable by nature, even if some of them are better at coping with it than their most insufferable peers.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t a joke or an insult. It\u2019s proven. The way you have probably felt around these people, particularly within the last six years, is not in your head. It\u2019s a concrete reality borne out by endless data.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/shutterstock_1971214970.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"A girl weeps on her bed.\" class=\"wp-image-22858866\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/shutterstock_1971214970.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/shutterstock_1971214970.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/shutterstock_1971214970.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/shutterstock_1971214970.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>A 2011 study found that liberals are <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>ly more depressed than conservatives.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Shutterstock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Scholars at the University of Florida and University of Toronto published <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/lelab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Schlenker-Chambers-Le-2012-Conservatives-are-happier-than-liberals-but-why-Political-ideology-personality-and-life-satisfaction.pdf\">an extensive study<\/a> in 2011 titled in part \u201cConservatives Are H<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ier Than Liberals, But Why?\u201d That paper was based on yet several other studies surveying the attitudes of American adults on life and how those lined up with their political ideologies.<\/p>\n<p>The authors found that \u201cconservatism was positively related to life satisfaction . . . and even after controlling for participants\u2019 age, gender, and family income level . . . conservatives are indeed happier than liberals.\u201d Surveyed students who were more likely to cite personal responsibility and conscientiousness as dominant factors in their lives tended to self-identify as politically conservative and also tended to exude \u201ca more positive outlook and stronger feelings of self-worth, as indicated by greater optimism and self-esteem as well as lower depression and depressive symptomology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rather than communicate like normal adults who can hear each other out and, at minimum, reach an understanding of differences, the immediate impulse of liberals is fight or flight. For liberals, political disagreements aren\u2019t opportunities to learn or engage. To the contrary, they see those disputes as reasons to shrink their social circles, withdraw from family and silo themselves with others who will say only things that affirm their nasty predispositions and won\u2019t disrupt their weird mentality.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"721\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/AP16335216364518.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"In this Oct. 19, 2016 file photo, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks during the third presidential debate with Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton at UNLV in Las Vegas. Trump, that most unconventional of presidential candidates, last spring pledged that he would act perfectly presidential when the time was right. \" class=\"wp-image-22858796\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/AP16335216364518.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/AP16335216364518.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/AP16335216364518.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/AP16335216364518.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>According to a 2016 survey, a quarter of Democrats blocked or unfriended someone on social media after Donald Trump\u2019s presidential win because of something political that the person posted.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP\/David Goldman<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thearda.com\/Archive\/Files\/Descriptions\/PRRI1216.asp\">December 2016 survey by the Public Religion Research Institute<\/a> showed a quarter of Democrats attested to having blocked, unfriended or stopped \u201cfollowing\u201d someone on social media after the year\u2019s election because of something political that the person posted. Only 9% of Republicans said the same. The institute further noted that self-identified, ideological liberals were \u201cfar more likely\u201d \u2014 by 20 points \u2014 to say they removed someone from their social-media circle based on something they said.<\/p>\n<p>The intolerance, bitterness and spite of liberals manifest just as well offline. They\u2019re also more likely to say they\u2019ve socially iced out real-life friends over political disagreements, they would rather not associate with people who don\u2019t think like them and romantic relationships with political opposites are a nonstarter.<\/p>\n<p>The American Perspectives Survey, conducted in <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.americansurveycenter.org\/download\/may-2021-american-perspectives-survey\/\">May 2021 by the Survey Center on American Life<\/a>, found Democrats and liberals were more likely to say they have ended friendships because of political disagreement. Among Republicans, 10% said they had done so. It was double for Democrats. In terms of ideology, 28% of liberals said they had ended friendships over political disagreements. Only 10% of conservatives said the same.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As much as you have something to say, liberals just as assuredly don\u2019t want to hear it. This wouldn\u2019t be so annoying if they didn\u2019t pretend to place so much value on tolerance and diversity. Liberals are nothing if not closed-minded, insolent grumps.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers make clear that not all liberals are necessarily maladjusted wet blankets. But if someone is a liberal, he or she is much more likely to be. It\u2019s their essence. It\u2019s in their DNA. Bitter is their natural state of being. Miserable is their default position.<\/p>\n<p><em>Eddie Scarry is the author of\u00a0\u201c<\/em><em>Liberal Misery: How the Hateful Left Sucks Joy Out of Everything and Everyone<\/em><em>,\u201d from which this exclusive excerpt is taken.<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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