A diary a while ago noted the penchant for the clinically mentally ill to embrace Bush, as a reaction to the need for a figure of clear authority in a dysfunctional world view. Here is a link to what I think is the original article.
A recommended diary today on the shooting death by police of an unfortunate young reservist included comments by rightwingers that are beyond disrespect, beyond insensitivity, and enter the realm of pathologically cruel.
Here's how this relates to my headline:
In the comment I posted a few moments ago to the reservist diary, I wrote this:
In the earlier diary I called it suicide by cop
In this poor young man's mind it was better than being blown up, worse, half blown up, by an IED.
The twist is the psychopath freeper reaction. I have said before, if the Christian world had the same poverty level as the Muslim one, those bracelets would say "WWJIED?"
Poll within a comment: What percentage of the 30+% dead-ender Bushites is composed of homicidal bastards?
0-20
20-40
40-60
60-80
80-100
We may already have a rough answer.
Hereit is, over at TPM Cafe. Apparently, 13% viewed George W. Bush as the biggest hero of 2006 while 25% rated him the biggest villian:
The poll asked respondents who they saw as the biggest hero and villain of the year. Bush topped both lists, with 13 percent naming him as the biggest hero ... but almost twice as many, 25 percent, naming him as the biggest villain. The kicker: Bin Laden was a distant second to Bush in the villain category, with only eight percent, followed by Hussein with six and Ahmadinejad with five.
I'd have to line up on the villiany side. The numbers of innocents maimed, dead and displaced under the policies of George W. Bush are astounding, and clearly exceed any other despot since Pol Pot, even Saddam Hussein, and make Osama himself into a minor-leaguer.
This is not meant to be snark or snide; in commenting on the "Bush Nuts" diary, I was critical of those who make light of mental illness. But numbers like these show more than political preference, ignorance or denial.
When the right-wing pundits who set opinion in that segment have abandoned Bush by droves, it seems inescapable fact that the conclusions of a significant portion of those in the general population who support Bush are not based on logic but driven by fear, cruelty, paranoia or aggression that at least verges on requiring clinical treatment.
I have no other explanation for why anyone would view this heinous man as a "hero" in any way, shape or form. I stand ready to be corrected.