Leftists Share a Common Desire to be Miserable

In this American Thinker article, Pete Colan reveals that leftists share an insatiable desire to seek out misery in everything, craving sympathy and praise while rejecting facts, data, or intellectual debate.

• The author, a successful engineer with eight patents who relies on statistical probabilities, has observed this pattern across years of non-political social media interactions with leftists.
• During COVID hysteria, leftist friends exaggerated New York City’s death toll despite skewed CDC data; the author noted Trump sent the USNS Comfort, which treated only 179 patients in a month despite expectations of a tidal wave.
• A leftist candidate bragged about being “deployed” to a non-hotspot town to stuff body bags and comfort dying patients despite no medical credentials; the author questioned the disproportionate claims and implausible access, leading to backlash and blocking.
• Recently, a leftist complained about poor service from Carrier A after a delayed package, prompting sympathetic exaggerations from friends; the author countered with 20 years of high-volume shipping data showing near-perfect performance with Carrier A versus frequent issues with Carrier B.
• Leftists dismissed the author’s statistical evidence, insisting individual experiences trump volume data and that everyone deserves identical premium service regardless of broader performance metrics.
• In each case, the author was criticized, ridiculed, or blocked for offering contrary facts instead of joining in the misery and sympathy-seeking.
• The pattern demonstrates a remarkable lack of self-esteem among many leftists, who prioritize emotional validation over truth or productive conversation.

Read the full story:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/06/leftists-share-a-common-desire-to-be-miserable/