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So imagine if you believe the news, you think that the climate is going to fry you, waste supremacists are behind the furniture.
There was a coup attempt recently, you would believe, and that Trump is a Putin's fluffer.
Trump is Putin's fluffer.
If you believe the news.
But conservatives are less likely to believe the news.
They tend to believe in stuff like hard work and family and obeying laws and
And if all of that goes wrong, if you're conservative and you do everything right, you obey the laws, stay off drugs, stay in school, you get married to a good mate and have kids.
If you do everything right and it still doesn't work out, you still got a backup.
Heaven.
Well, at least it'll be better later.
It might be terrible now, but wait till later.
Wow.
I did everything right, so I'm going to heaven.
So you got one group of people who think they're going to, you know, rot in the earth immediately after the climate fries them and the waste supremacists murder them and the coup takes over the United States and turns this into whatever.
And one group thinks that they have a perfectly good plan for happiness in this world, but if that didn't work out, they've got a second perfectly good plan for an eternity of happiness.
What would you expect?
What would you expect would be the mental health outcome of those two systems?
Design is destiny.
You have two systems and they're designed for exactly the outcome that they delivered.
The conservatives designed a system that delivers happiness most of the time.