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Why some chaos-seekers just want to watch the world burn

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Political scientists say 15 percent of the U.S. population gravitates toward chaos, or a desire for a new beginning through the destruction of order and established structures.

Kevin Arceneaux : Chaos is a strategy that some people use to account for a perceived loss in status.

He says people in darker personality traits might be responding by dialing up chaos.

Arceneaux: People who scored high on the chaos scale in 2024 were more likely to vote for Donald Trump .

He says chaos seekers skew white and male people who feel like their group has lost.

White men show the strongest correlation between status loss and need for chaos, he says.

People who believe that they are high in status score higher in need of chaos.

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