I agree with what you're saying, and while my comments were hyperbole, I think a goodly percentage -- an alarming percentage -- of voters are motivated by neurotic fear and hatred, fed by ignorance. I'm still awaiting the inevitable "psychiatric profile" biography of Bill Clinton, but from all that I've read, observed, and know from life's experience, he was and is one sick puppy, and is off the scale in terms of characteristics of personality disorder. Why was he adored by so many Americans? I think his sycophantic followers largely suffer from a personality disorder themselves.
I noted polling results through the entire Clinton nightmare which convinced me that around 42% of voters are susceptible to falling prey to a polished sociopath. And since you mentioned Baby Boomers, I'll volunteer that I am one, and that I believe my generation, in particular, is susceptible to this kind of hoodwinking, being on shaky emotional grounds themselves.
I also believe that since how one thinks can actually affect brain physiology, it's my conclusion that liberalism -- the liberal mindset, worldview, and ideology -- actually causes mental illness.
I'm heartened that some of Pres. Bush's most ardent supporters are those in the 18-25 year old cohort. If we can just get past this election cycle, and over the next four years have the Baby Boomers start to die off, we may be out of the woods.
Bill Clinton is a Sociopath. Saddam Hussein is also a Sociopath.
This really gets to a whole separate discussion, but My2Cents, you might find the books by William Strauss & Neil Howe to be interesting. Here's a weblink to their most 'alarming' one:
http://www.fourthturning.com/html/history___turnings.html While nobody is sure exactly what the future holds, the theories they espouse concerning generations and cycles of history confirmed many of the thoughts that I had knocking around in my head as I grew from an adolecent to an adult. if Strauss & Howe are right, you Boomers are gonna need us GenXers to pull y'all back to reality.
Welcome to the Fourth Turning.