http://smiley.vox.com/library/posts/tags/conservative/page/1/ Sad Songs on a Broken Ukelele en Vox Sat, 10 May 2008 21:05:46 +0900 Copyright 2008 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss conservative http://smiley.vox.com/library/post/sad-liberals-unite.html?_c=feed-rss-full nobody@vox.com(Smiley) http://smiley.vox.com/library/post/sad-liberals-unite.html?_c=feed-rss-full http://smiley.vox.com/library/post/sad-liberals-unite.html?_c=feed-rss-full Sat, 10 May 2008 21:05:46 +0900 <p>As someone who is both a liberal and appalled at the cosmic unfairness of life, I found <a href="http://www.livescience.com/health/080507-liberal-conservative.html">this article</a> quite interesting:</p><blockquote><p>Regardless of marital status, income or church attendance, right-wing individuals reported greater life satisfaction and well-being than <a href="http://www.livescience.com/health/080310-liberal-seniors.html">left-wingers</a>, the new study found. Conservatives also scored highest on measures of rationalization, which gauge a person&#39;s tendency to justify, or explain away, inequalities.</p></blockquote><p>There was nothing really new in the thinking, I guess, it&#39;s more that it&#39;s disturbing to have scientific evidence backing up the idea that conservatives are happier because they&#39;re better at justifying life&#39;s unfairness.&#160; I mean, after all, how many rich conservatives have you heard offer excuses like &quot;they&#39;re poor because they&#39;re lazy&quot; or &quot;I pulled myself up by my bootstraps, you can too!&quot;</p><p>Sigh.<br /> </p> <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://smiley.vox.com/library/post/sad-liberals-unite.html?_c=feed-rss-full#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2251e70a18e1d00f48d155cf60001?_c=feed-rss-full">Send to a friend</a> </p> conservative science liberal rich assholes