A researcher in Connecticut has produced evidence that there is a link between strong support for Pres. Bush and psychosis. The study is not a joke, and the researcher, Christopher Lohse, describes himself as a “Reagan revolution fanatic.”
The study was produced as part of Lohse’s master’s degree research at Southern Connecticut State University:
The thesis draws on a survey of 69 psychiatric outpatients in three Connecticut locations during the 2004 presidential election. Lohse’s study … 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…
“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.’”
And:
“Bush supporters had significantly less knowledge about current issues, government and politics than those who supported Kerry,” the study says.
Lohse says the trend isn’t unique to Bush: A 1977 study by Frumkin & Ibrahim found psychiatric patients preferred Nixon over McGovern in the 1972 election.
My personal experience listening to callers to C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal” every morning on the “support Bush” line strongly confirms these findings.
This I have long suspected.
What’s worse, we, who have to live under Bush and with his nutso supporters have been driven pretty damn close to the edge ourselves!
Finally, an explanation that makes sense.
Most of the Bush supporters I know are very inflexible, and not only about politics. They get all their information from limited sources and refuse to hear anything that deviates from their mindset.