Psychotics 4 Bush!
Posted on Alternet by
Melissa McEwan at 9:04 AM on November 28, 2006.
Study finds the more psychotic the voter, the more likely they were to vote for Bush.
[Christopher
Lohse], a social work master’s student at Southern Connecticut State
University, says he has proven what many progressives have probably
suspected for years: a direct link between mental illness and support
for President Bush.
…Lohse's study,
backed by SCSU Psychology professor Jaak Rakfeldt and statistician
Misty Ginacola, found a correlation between the severity of a person's
psychosis and their preferences for president: The more psychotic the
voter, the more likely they were to vote for Bush.
The
study began in part as an advocacy project "designed to register
mentally ill voters and encourage them" to vote, while assessing
"knowledge of current issues, government and politics." The Bush trend
emerged in the course of the study, according to Lohse, who describes
himself as a "Reagan revolution fanatic" who nonetheless finds Bush
"beyond the pale." During the course of the study, it emerged that
"Bush supporters has significantly less knowledge about current issues,
government and politics than those who supported Kerry," and that
greater levels of psychosis predicted Bush support.
"Our
study shows that psychotic patients prefer an authoritative leader,"
Lohse says. "If your world is very mixed up, there's something very
comforting about someone telling you, 'This is how it's going to be'."
None
of this is actually new information. That liberal voters tend to be
much better informed as a group and tend to reject authoritarianism is
well documented, from both the chicken came first angle and
the egg came first angle. But it's nonetheless amusing to have further
evidence that the people constantly calling progressives unhinged
lunatics are, you know, way more likely to be nutzoid than the targets
of their gleeful finger-pointing.
Via Tom Tomorrow, who dryly notes: "Anyone who's spent any time reading right wing blogs already understood this to be true." Indeed.
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