New Study Proves ‘Mentally Ill Voters’ Love Bush
Bush Nuts: Are George W. Bush lovers certifiable?
With 31% approval ratings, George W. Bush isn’t loved by any political group, especially the real conservatives. So who are those Bush loyalists who stand up for their boy year after disastrous year? Crazy people, that’s who. Researchers followed psychotics through the voting process in 2004 and 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,” according to Bush’s hometown newspaper. But the Bush crazies aren’t just crazy — they’re also stupid. “Bush supporters had significantly less knowledge about current issues, government and politics than those who supported Kerry.” We hope the researchers will now find a medical explanation for Democrats pretending to like Kerry in ‚Äö√Ñ√≤04.
For those of you who come to TPRS for your daily dose of political indoctrination and woolly-headed Liberal marching orders, this study should come as no surprise. Really, how else could a lying, ignorant thug be “elected” and “re-elected” as President except with the votes of those too lazy, disinterested, ignorant, and uncaring to take an honest look and think critically about who they were voting for? I’m reminded of the headline from an English newspaper the morning after the 2004 election: “HOW COULD 54,000,000+ AMERICANS BE SO STUPID?” It was a good question then, and the passage of two years have made it an ever more appropriate question. Indeed, how COULD 54,000,000+ Americans be so f——-g stupid? How could so many people be so ignorant, so self-absorbed, and so unwilling to honestly appraise what Our Glorious and Benevolent Leader has done, and continues to do, both here in this country and in Iraq?
Who else is to blame for the current state of affairs here and in Iraq? Yes, Our Glorious and Benevolent Leader is the one directly responsible, but those of you who voted for the fool in 2000 and/or in 2004 also bear more than a little bit of responsibility. You also have blood on your hands. When you see the news stories about about a 21-year-old Marine who’d being buried in his hometown because he was killed by a roadside bomb in Baghdad, YOU are also responsible for his death. You voted for Our Glorious and Benevolent Leader.
I’m not about to argue that John Kerry was far and way a superior candidate, but he’s not Our Glorious and Benevolent Leader. If Kerry had been elected in 2004, we might still be in Iraq. Even so, you can bet that we wouldn’t be subjected to the neocons currently in power arguing that leaving Iraq would be tantamount to “cutting and running”. We’d be able to have a reasoned, intelligent debate about the war in Iraq, instead of being subjected to wave upon wave of propaganda platitudes that would make Josef Goebbels proud.
Why think when you can deal in propaganda and talking points? Expecting Americans to think critically might expose too many to the risk of brain injury from overuse. After all, if you’re not used to thinking, you might just pull something, eh?
A collective “I told you so” will ripple through the world of Bush-bashers once news of Christopher Lohse’s study gets out.
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.
And you thought I was just making this up….
Lohse says his study is no joke. The thesis draws on a survey of 69 psychiatric outpatients in three Connecticut locations during the 2004 presidential election. 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.
But before you go thinking all your conservative friends are psychotic, listen to Lohse’s explanation.
“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, ‚Äö√Ñ√≤This is how it’s going to be.’”
So who’s to say that all my Conservative friends aren’t psychotic? After the recent midterm election, I know that a lot of them are feeling somewhat adrift and very anxious at the thought of Fraulein Himmler Nancy Pelosi in the role of Congressional Hausfrau.
If Our Glorious and Benevolent Leader’s ascent to power isn’t a sad commentary on the sorry state of our collective intellectual agility, I don’t know what is. Post-9.11, it appears that many, far too many, Americans have allowed themselves to be lulled into an intellectual and moral torpor by the constant drumbeat of Administration propaganda. Why think when you can react?
Besides, there’s nothing that makes Conservatives feel better and more completely American that a good “Three Minute Hate”…especially when it’s directed at Liberals and Terrorists (and, really, is there a difference between the two?).
Better to fight the terrorists in the streets of Baghdad….
If you’re not with us, you’re supporting the terrorists….
You don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud….
We will stay the course….
To leave Iraq now would be to “cut and run”- and only weasly, weak-kneed Democrats “cut and run”….
We will stand down as Iraqi forces are able to stand up….
Mission Accomplished….
We will not leave Iraq until we achieve victory….
Conservatives may laugh at this study, but that’s only because they know that if they stick to their talking points as ridiculing this as “junk science”, they can deflect the public debate from where it really should be. Frankly, most Americans won’t give this study a second thought. After all, critical thinking isn’t really one of our strong points, is it?
It wouldn’t hurt if it weren’t true….
