A need for chaos powers some Americans' support for Elon Musk taking a chainsaw to the US government
The next day Musk replied to the post, 'Some people just want to watch the world burn,' an iconic line from the 2008 Batman film 'The Dark Knight.' Alfred, the Wayne family's faithful butler, says the line to Bruce Wayne ' Batman ' to describe the motivations behind the Joker's chaotic acts of violence. Musk ' and Alfred ' was right. Some people do, in fact, say they think that society should be burned to the ground. It's part of a psychological measure political psychologists created called 'need for chaos.' New data from the Center for Political Communication at the University of Delaware suggests that those people ' the ones who want society to burn ' are the ones with more, not less, trust in Musk. They also report more trust in the Department of Government Efficiency, the government entity Musk advises, which the Trump administration claims it created to cut government waste and fraud. Somewhat like the Joker, whose perpetual sense of victimhood ' 'You wanna know how I got...
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