Recently another poll revealed America’s most known political fact: Liberals are miserable. The samplings change but the conclusions don’t. Yet as confirmed as leftist misery is, its cause is missed: cognitive dissonance.

The latest polling by the Institute for Family Studies found that only 12 percent of young liberal women were completely satisfied with life. Contrastingly, young conservative women were three times more likely to be completely satisfied. Further, IFS observed: “And consistent with previous research, the effect of ideology on young women’s happiness held up to controls for age, education, race, and income.” (LISTEN FOR MORE: The Spectator P.M. Ep. 114: Conservative Women Are Happier Than Liberal Women)
IFS’s findings are hardly new. Just do a quick search of depression, pessimism, or unhappiness based on ideology, and a plethora of articles appear, all detailing the same thing. Being left means being unhappier than your counterparts on the right.
The theories are many. As the IFS article states:

Many of the most thoughtful interpreters — like Jonathan Haidt, Jean Twenge, and Matthew Yglesias — of this ideological divide in the emotional well-being of young women have pointed to the role that “catastrophizing” thinking has played in dragging down the spirits of liberal women. The idea is that taking an overly negative view of the world, and minimizing your own agency to navigate life, often inspired by social media, has taken a serious toll on young liberal women’s emotional health. That’s because, as Yglesias put it: “Mentally processing ambiguous events with a negative spin is just what depression is.”

The article goes on to cite Aristotle and the French sociologist, Emile Durkheim in its search for “why?” However, rather than looking inward in search of the obscure, the outward provides an answer both far more obvious and far more likely. Liberals are wrong — over and over again and almost 100 percent of the time. It is as though in life’s game...