Are the republicans you know generally happy people?

[Prophet 451]

22. Not generally

Most of the Republicans I know are hateful and angry. Their constant hatred for foreigners and anyone/anything remotely liberal, their constant feeling of being embattled makes them miserable. I suspect the religious ones you know are mostly fundie. Fundamentalism is a glorified revenge fantasy o everyone the believer dislikes getting sent to hell while the believer can rejoice in smug superiority. It's best summed up by a line from the Weird Al track Amish Paradise: "I'll be laughing my head off / as you're burning in hell". That's the core of fundamentalism, that belief that the greatest joy of heaven is watching everyone else in hell (which is also why I'm a Luciferian). Of course, the modern form of fundamentalism (which I call Republianity) also exists to give divine approval to a fringe-right agenda.

Republianity is a mixture of lip service to Jesus (while jettisoning virtually everything he actually taught), Nieztchian will-to-power, Randian beliefs to justify psychotic anti-tax beliefs, Nazi-level nationalism and worship of the military and Rapture beliefs that were invented wholesale out of a few twisted-from-context Bible verses about a century ago. It has it's own high priests (Pat Robertson, Limbaugh, Beck), it's own messiah figure (Reagan), it's own devil figure (Obama although really, it's whoever the most high-profile liberal of the time is), it's own designated scapegoats (liberals) and it's own versions of history, economics, psychology, theology and jurisprudence.