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Which political group is happier: Liberals (left) or conservatives (right)?

The left

by Duane Kuehn

The further to the left a person keeps their individual self, the happier they are.

Here is another unhappy email that I received from a conservative:

"Please do not email me again. I have read other articles that you have written and to be honest, we are completely different in every way possible. Most people that I know, have compared me to Anne Coulter. Yes, I am a Christian, right-wing conservative and proud of it! From what I have read, I can see that you are the type that I am fighting against! I just simply ask that you take me off of your email list, as I do not wish to correspond to liberal scum!

God bless,
(Name on file)

When I stopped laughing, I felt sorry for this person. If anyone else here is a Christian, please pray for her, and anyone to whom she compare. My Christ does not put up with false-witness or kicking people when they are down.

Did anyone ever notice how Anne Coulter finds so much to complain about in this world and especially this country? She must be the epitome of unhappy people, is there nothing good in her world? In addition, her unhappiness with the world is always because of someone else or some other group.

Anne Coulter, I consider the queen of ultra-conservative spin. Though it is a bit hard for me to figure if she is serious or just a misguided comedian. I certainly get a good, happy laugh at much of what she has to say.

Here is a young woman who has it all and enjoys so much calling anyone who looks a bit further into things a "liberal". An honest and worthy title made vulgar by, no less than a Conservative Candidate (or his speechwriter or maybe campaign manager). All it took was a bit of spin and an anxious American public.

Once upon a time, "liberal" meant someone who had interpreted the Constitution of the United States in a Liberal manner. Never so liberal, though, as the current Conservatives who take it so liberally that they want to write into the opposite of its full meaning, inequality to a section of the people of the United States. I wonder who will be the next section of people to go.

The Jewish went first in Germany. To the best of my knowledge, the Christians went first in old Russia.

Speaking of "Christians", when did being Christian become stoning those seen by conservatives as the least of God's children? It seems the Ultra Conservative Christian Right will always find someone to blame for the ills of their little perfect world. Most "Liberals" just look at them and think, "Ah, that's just the way some folks are."

Liberals just are not so quick to turn a molehill into a mountain so they can move it at the expense of someone else. I think that "liberals" understand that what one does to another must be repaid later. "What goes around comes around", they say with a laugh and a, "What's one to do, they have to have something to play with in life, even if it means tormenting someone else."

Liberals are definitely happier.

If ultra-conservative people had any sense of humor, they would realize how truly silly they can be.

One gets an email with my name as the sender. If one finds my articles offensive because they are "liberal", one would think they would delete, not open and read. Personally, I would not have opened it in the first place; there is a delete key if one looks for it.

From the subject line, this is obviously a reply to one of those ridiculous mass mailings. Yes, I do not just delete these mass mailing, I reply to them. Some people actually believe that garbage. Sometimes they are about Barack Obama being head of some secret underground Muslim cult. How he is out to overthrow the (corrupt no less) government and force everyone to bow to Mecca or something. Good grief, does anyone have some prime farm property in the Sahara to sell?

This one, however, was about how the children of those illegal aliens are eating breakfasts off food bars that outdo the breakfast bar at the Marriott and are calling our teachers dirty names. They too are trying to overthrow our government.

None of these emails ever tells us who is in the lead of the overthrow, the Obama people, the gays or the illegal aliens. What is it that Conservatives like about spreading fear anyway? Then pulling that "Christian" card to assure anyone who does not "tow-their-line" can be associated with Satan.

The woman who says I am the type she is fighting against decides to write fight and me (myself being the accumulation for all of her displeasure for the day). Apparently, Conservatives do not recognize that someone who would reply to a mass emailing does not have a "list". Nor do they realize that all they have to do is "block" the sender address. I cannot remove her from what is not there.

I did not write my reply to her, I wrote it for all those people (and I know some) who believe everything in those mass mailings.

The point is, she, like so many other conservatives cannot stand to be happy. When I get such a mass mailing that I disagree with, I reply. I laugh at the ridiculous mass mailing, and I reply to it.

Conservatives have little to say in answer to the replies, but they just have to fight somehow. They, like anyone without an intelligent answer, respond with "name calling" (you can almost hear them going "nah-nah-nah-nah-nah, I got you with that one).

I would rather be "liberal scum", and a follower of Jesus the Christ, than a self-righteous conservative spreading hatred in the name of Christ.

I suppose I should not be so hard on conservatives, I even like some of them. However, what can I say? A true "ultra conservative" may usually be unhappy unless they can shear the sheep but, they do keep their silver polished to a nice gloss.

Yes, liberals are much happier than conservatives are.

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