How To Make People Unhappy? Part 2

In Part 1, I shared that the number one reason to make people unhappy in life is to sow within them seeds of ingratitude.  This is what I believe to be the modus operandi of the liberal Democratic establishment as a very good example of this.

And I believe this for the following reasons:

First, they sow the seed of victimhood.

People are constantly told that they are victims because of their upbringing, because of past prejudice against their group, because of material inequality, because they are female, and for many other reasons.

Ingratitude always leads to or comes from victimhood.  Ungrateful people, by definition, think of themselves as victims.  And perceiving oneself as a victim or perceiving oneself as a member of a victim group may be the single biggest reason people hurt other people -- from hurtful comments to mass murder.  Liberal Democrats are notorious for encouraging groups of people to see themselves as victims of someone or something. People who think of themselves as victims tend to believe that because they have been hurt by others, they can hurt others.  This is what is behind the Democratic Party and to the Republicans to a lesser extent.

Second, ungrateful people who see themselves as victims are plagued with anger.

The ungrateful are angry, and angry people lash out at others.  If ingratitude makes people unhappy and mean, then gratitude must make people happy and kind.  And so it does.

Think of the times you have felt most grateful – were they not always accompanied by a feeling of happiness?  Weren't they also accompanied by a desire to be kinder to other people?  Also a desire to be content and thankful?

The answer, of course, is yes. Grateful people aren't angry, and they don't see themselves as victims. The problem, however, and it’s a big one, is that in America (through the help of the liberal media especially) and much of the rest of the world people are becoming less grateful. 

Why? Because people are constantly told that they are entitled to things they haven’t earned – what are known as “benefits” or “entitlements.”

The more things that people think they should get, the less grateful they will be for whatever they do get.  And the more angry they are, and therefore unhappy, they will be when they don't get them. 

Here’s are two rules of life:

Rule number one. The less you feel entitled to, the more gratitude you will feel for whatever you get and the happier you will be.

Rule number two. The more you feel entitled to, the less happy you will be.

That’s why, for example, children who get whatever they want are usually less happy children. We have a word for such children – spoiled. And no one thinks of a spoiled child as a happy child – and certainly not a kind one.

The more that you feel that life or society owes you, the angrier you will get,

the less happy you will be. As a result, the liberal Democrats are increasing the number of angry, unhappy, and selfish people -- all over!

Next time you want to assess any social policy by either political party, ask this question first: Will this policy increase or decrease gratitude among people? You will then know whether it is something that will bring more goodness and happiness to the world. Or less.

If I were granted just one wish, it would be that all people be grateful. Gratitude is the source of happiness, and the source of goodness; and the more good people, and the more happy people there are walking around, the happier and better our world will be.  And gratitude begins with ME first before others will begin to take note.

Special Note:  I have been following the work and progress of the "protectors" on the Mauna -- Mauna Kea.   I deeply admire their tenacity for standing up to the government for decades of lies and broken promises regarding their land.

However, I am very concerned. I am hoping that none of what they are doing is done out of a spirit of ingratitude. If it is, then they will view themselves as victims, because they primarily been taught and told they are, which will then foster unhappy, angry people who feel entitled to get things they may not get, and if so, will end up hurting others and causing more harm to themselves and their cause.

Has the present and past government broken promises to the Hawaiian people? You have to be living a La La Land not to realize that.  Remember this whole series is on how the Democratic government does things to make people unhappy by making them ungrateful. We all have received from the government, the good as well as the bad. But don't let such things cause you to become ungrateful. That's what they want. They want to shove you into a political category group of entitlement expecting benefits and rights that you will not receive to your complete satisfaction.  Governments are not perfect!

Don't allow anyone to take away your gratefulness.  If they do, you'll be unhappy, angry, identify as a victim, expecting handouts, and if you don't deal with your ungrateful heart, you will hurt others.

This is the liberal Democrat Playbook. Don't give them the power that they desperately want by making you feel ungrateful, and therefore totally dependent of them for your happiness.

Be akamai!  

Bible passages on gratefulness (2 Tim. 3:2; Rom. 1:21; Col. 3:15; James 1:24; James 5:13; 1 Thess. 5:16-18; Eph. 1:16; Ps. 103:2; Acts 24:3; Luke 17:17-18; Prov. 14:30).

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