THERE'S NO TIME TO CRY:

Right-wing Swedes "happiest" (The Local, 6/24/05)

One in four Swedes professes to be "very happy", according to a new survey. The happiest people in Sweden have high incomes, are in good health, and pray to God.

The survey, carried out by researchers at Gothenburg University, showed that people who voted for the Christian Democrat or Moderate parties were more likely to think of themselves as happy. This despite seventy years of almost unbroken Social Democratic rule in Sweden.

Happy people were also most likely to be young and be living with a partner or be married. [...]

"Happiness in Sweden is to be healthy, to be married or cohabiting, to believe in a god, to earn good money and to be young," write report editors Sören Holmberg and Lennart Weibull.

Folk on the Left can't figure out why they're so humorless and unhappy as they wage war on marriage, Christianity, and wealth.

Posted by Orrin Judd at June 26, 2005 5:55 PM