{"id":1705196,"date":"2022-10-21T08:03:01","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T12:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1705196"},"modified":"2022-10-21T08:03:37","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T12:03:37","slug":"data-show-conservatives-are-happier-than-leftists-is-anyone-surprised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/data-show-conservatives-are-happier-than-leftists-is-anyone-surprised\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Show Conservatives Are Happier Than Leftists. Is Anyone Surprised?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdata-show-conservatives-are-happier-than-leftists-is-anyone-surprised%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1705196&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A tweet from the researcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aei.org\/profile\/w-bradford-wilcox\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Brad Wilcox<\/a> recently caught my attention. \u201cLiberals,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/BradWilcoxIFS\/status\/1579435031797587968\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">he wrote<\/a>, \u201care about 15 percentage points less likely\u201d to be truly satisfied with their lives. On the same day that he tweeted out this compelling piece of information, Wilcox, a researcher studying family growth and economic trends, wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/unherd.com\/thepost\/why-are-liberals-less-happy-than-conservatives\/?=frpo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">an enlightening article<\/a> expanding on this topic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Liberals, he wrote, \u201care about 18 percentage points less likely to be \u2018completely satisfied\u2019 with their \u2018mental health\u2019 than conservatives.\u201d Interestingly, he added, the issue of satisfaction, or lack thereof, appears to be especially \u201cacute\u201d for liberal women. According to the author, only 15 percent of liberals are \u201ccompletely satisfied\u201d with their lives and mental health. On the other hand, 31 percent of conservative women are \u201ccompletely satisfied\u201d with their lives, and\u00a0 36 percent with their mental health.<\/p>\n<p>As Wilcox noted, two family-related factors help explain this \u201cideological gap.\u201d They are marital status and family satisfaction. In short, conservatives between the ages of 18-55 are \u201cabout 20 percentage points more likely to be married\u201d than their liberal peers, \u201cas well as 18 percentage points more likely to be satisfied with their families.\u201d Marriage and family are directly associated with happiness, psychological and spiritual growth, and fewer mental health issues. Marriage is <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/121571\/marriage-remains-key-predictor-party-identification.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a key predictor<\/a> of party identification; it\u2019s also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicalnewstoday.com\/articles\/320458\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a key predictor<\/a> of satisfaction.<\/p>\n<p>The problem \u2014 one that is growing in size, I might add \u2014 facing liberals involves fully embracing a false narrative. Wilcox argued that too many on the left \u201chave embraced the false narrative that the path to happiness runs counter to marriage and family life, not towards it.\u201d Wrongly, they believe independence from the supposed shackles of domestic life will make them happier. They fall for the harmful narratives being pushed by mainstream media outlets, celebrating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/09\/30\/opinion\/divorce-children.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the dissolution of marriage<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-08-31\/women-not-having-kids-get-richer-than-men?cmpid=socialflow-twitter-businessweek&#038;sref=0lt16h2M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the rise of childless women<\/a>. Wilcox criticized a recently published and widely read story by the author Molly Smith that appeared in Bloomberg. In the piece, Smith made a wholly inaccurate claim: Women who stay single and don\u2019t have kids get richer and will continue to get richer. In reality, stressed Wilcox, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/why-conservative-women-report-being-happiest-how-you-can-too-opinion-1748894\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">married mothers tend to be richer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, some unmarried, childless women are happier and richer than their married, family-oriented counterparts. However, as Wilcox was eager to emphasize, progressives must \u201cunderstand and appreciate\u201d that these women are extreme outliers. The key to happiness, a philosophical conundrum that has perplexed the sharpest of minds for centuries, appears to involve a healthy marriage and a life built around a strong family unit. When it comes to actual meaning in life, although employment and job titles are mightily important, <a href=\"https:\/\/healthpolicy.usc.edu\/evidence-base\/conservatives-find-more-meaning-in-life-than-liberals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">they can\u2019t compete<\/a> with the sanctity of marriage and childrearing. When lying on your deathbed, will you smile and remember closing that six-figure deal or those family vacations and Sunday dinners? Hopefully, the latter.<\/p>\n<p>Another factor that contributes to happiness, one not discussed by Wilcox, involves faith. Very few, I\u2019m sure, will be shocked to hear that conservatives <a href=\"https:\/\/centerforinquiry.org\/blog\/what-makes-conservatives-more-religious-than-liberals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">are<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The data on conservative happiness and liberal misery shouldn&#8217;t come as a shock to anyone, and here&#8217;s why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1234,"featured_media":1705199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1705196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1705196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1705199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1705196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1705196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1705196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}