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Happiness is relative. What one considers happiness, another might just consider contentment or merely the ability to cope. Some people are only happy when they are stirring up controversy. Webster's first definition is, "delighted, pleased or glad, as over a particular thing". That makes this topic somewhat subjective and pretty much personal opinion. This question cannot have a cut and dried answer and cannot cover every liberal and/or every conservative.

My perspective is heavily influenced by my life as a conservative as compared to the lives of the persons with whom I am personally acquainted who are liberals. There is also an opinion that has developed as a result of the liberals and conservatives that I listen to on the radio and watch on television. most of the people in my family are conservatives and are really happy people; I have a sister, on the other hand, who is extremely liberal. She strikes me as very unsettled, and not very happy.

I find conservatives, as a rule, to be able to discuss a topic without becoming irate and shrill. I find a great deal less name-calling and fewer really rude, crass comments coming from the conservatives. My experience has led me to deduce that personal faith is a larger part of the lives of conservatives. Issues that are related to morals and Biblical principals seem to be more primary to conservatives.

I see more confidence in conservatives regarding the strength and future of the country. I find most liberals to whom I speak and who I listen to in the media to be really negative. I hear problems and complaints, but never solutions.

These are things that lead me to believe that conservatives are basically happier people. They are people who believe it is far better to teach a man to fish rather than just to give man a fish; give him a fish to give him sustenance enough to get up and learn to fish. Conservatives desire a country that abounds with pride - one that certainly does not see itself as perfect but nevertheless recognizes it as the best there is, with room always for improvement, but the kind that takes hard work and pitching in together. I don't hear conservatives threatening to leave the country if a particular candidate wins an election; I don't hear conservatives espousing gloom and doom for the future; I hear them saying "let's get up and do something about this". I hear many liberal leaders desiring to take us to a place that smacks of socialism, which does not appear

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