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Thursday, August 8, 2019

QAnon, The Trumpista "Deep State" Conspiracy Movement Glorifying America's Cultural Collapse

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Dear F and Jimbo,
I've been following QAnon for quite a while.
From the beginning, this movement has confirmed my belief that 9/11 unleashed "The National Lunacy" and that these people are truly crazy in the same compartmentalized way that psychopaths (and phobics) are.
QAnon cultists are not necessarily psychopathic but they routinely "seal off" their lunacy so that it operates as an "automonous psychological complex" within their psyches - psyches that are otherwise as capable as Ted Bundy at putting on a congenial face. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Bundy
"Q" cultists are so adept at denial that they can even hide their psychopathology from themselves.
The following video from ABC "Nightline" is my most recent discovery concerning this crazed movement.
Immediately after the "Nightline" video, I supply other pertinent links.
ABC "Nightline": What Is QAnon And How Did The Conspiracy Gain Mainstream Attention
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/08/watch-abc-nightline-what-is-qanon-and.html

Mark Twain, Adolf Hitler And The Dunning-Kruger Effect

(The Dunning-Kruger Effect posits that stupid people are too stupid to know they're stupid.)
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-danger-of-carbon-dioxide-as.html

John Kennedy Jr. Is Alive... And He's Trump's Biggest Fan! QAnon: The Evanescence Of Sanity, And The Catastrophic Collapse Of American "Conservatism"
Put nothing past these people.
They are deranged.
At minimum, they will wholeheartedly support -- like "the good Germans" they are -- any attempt by Trump to clamp-down in ways that facilitate fascist coup.

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Trump's Most Egregious, In-Your-Face Fascist Declaration: "We're Going To Have To Do Things..."


The Bonus Round!

FACT: "Since 1968 Guns Have Killed More Americans Than All U.S. Wars Combined"

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/08/fact-since-1968-guns-have-killed-more.html 

 "Are Republicans Insane?"
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Pax-Shalom-Salaam
Alan

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Follow-up dialogue with my original correspondent to whom I sent the email above:

Dear F,

Thanks for your email.

By way of answering your question conscerning the number of Q followers, I am confident there are millions, and can easily believe that there tens of millions, many of whom may not be "true believers" but rather people who are devoted to Trump and enjoy moderate exposure to QAnon as a "fun" game.

For documented analysis, I refer you to the following excerpts from Wikipedia's QAnon article:

QAnon[a] (/kjuːəˈnɒn/) is a far-right conspiracy theory[7][8] detailing a supposed secret plot by an alleged "deep state" against U.S. President Donald Trump and his supporters.[9] The theory began with an October 2017 post on the anonymous imageboard 4chan by someone using the tripcode Q, a presumably American[10] individual that may have later grown to include multiple people,[11][12][13] claiming to have access to classified information involving the Trump administration and its opponents in the United States. The Q poster (s) has falsely accused numerous liberal Hollywood actors, Democratic politicians, and high-ranking officials of engaging in an international child sex trafficking ring and has claimed that Donald Trump feigned collusion with Russians in order to enlist Robert Mueller to join him in exposing the ring and preventing a coup d'état by Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and George Soros.[14][15][16] "Q" is a reference to the top-secret Q clearance. QAnon believers commonly tag their social media posts with the hashtag #WWG1WGA, signifying the motto "where we go one, we go all." 

In May 2019, the FBI identified QAnon-driven extremists as being a potential source of domestic terrorism, the first time a fringe conspiracy theory had been so rated by the agency.[29]
 
Within less than a year of existence, QAnon became significantly recognized by the general population. According to an August 2018 Qualtrics poll for The Washington Post, 58% of Floridians are familiar enough with QAnon to have an opinion about it 

Experts have classified the appeal of QAnon as similar to that of religious cults. According to expert in online conspiracy Renee DiResta, the QAnon pattern is similar to enticement into cults in the pre-Internet era, where as the targeted person was led deeper and deeper into the group's secrets, they become more and more isolated from friends and family outside of the cult.[94] In the Internet age, QAnon virtual communities have little "real world" connection with each other, but online, they can number in the tens of thousands.[94] Rachel Bernstein, an expert on cults who specializes in recovery therapy, says that "What a movement such as QAnon has going for it, and why it will catch on like wildfire, is that it makes people feel connected to something important that other people don’t yet know about. ... All cults will provide this feeling of being special." There is no self-correction process within the group, since the self-reinforcing true believers are immune to correction, fact-checking, or counter-speech, which is drowned out in the groupthink of the cult.[94]

People in the QAnon community often talk about alienation from family and friends. ... Though they typically talk about how Q frayed their relationships on private Facebook groups. But they think these issues are temporary and primarily the fault of others. They often comfort themselves by imagining that there will be a moment of vindication sometime in the near future which will prove their beliefs right. They imagine that after this happens, not only will their relationships be restored, but people will turn to them as leaders who understand what's going on better than the rest of us.[95]

Some Q followers break away when they recognize the content of the theories is not self-consistent, or they see that some of the content is directly aimed at getting donations from a specific audience, such as evangelical or conservative Christians. This then "breaks the spell" the conspiracies had over them. Others start watching Q-debunking videos; one former believer says that the videos "saved" her.[95]
Disillusionment can also come from the failure of the theories' predictions. Q had predicted Republican success in the 2018 US midterm elections, and claimed that Attorney General Jeff Sessions was involved in secret work for Trump, with apparent tensions between them a cover. When Democrats made significant gains and Trump fired Sessions, there was disillusionment among many in the Q community.[96][97] Further disillusionment came when the predicted December 5 mass arrest and imprisonment in Guantanamo Bay detention camp of enemies of Donald Trump did not occur, nor did the dismissal of charges against Trump's former National Security Advisor, Michael Flynn. For some these failures began the process of separation from the QAnon cult, while other urged direct action in the form of an insurrection against the government. Such a response to a failed prophecy is not unusual: apocalyptic cults such as Heaven's Gate, the People's Temple, the Manson Family, and Aum Shinrikyo resorted to mass suicide or mass murder when their expectations for revelations or the fulfillment of their prophecies did not come about. Psychologist Robert Lifton calls it "forcing the end". This phenomenon is being seen among some QAnon believers.[95]
Prominent QAnon follower Liz Crokin, who in 2018 asserted that John F. Kennedy Jr. faked his death and is now Q,[98] stated in February 2019 that she was losing patience in Trump to arrest the supposed members of the child sex ring, suggesting that the time was approaching for "vigilante justice."[99] Other QAnon followers have adopted the Kennedy theory, asserting that a Pittsburgh man named Vincent Fusca is Kennedy in disguise and would be Trump’s 2020 running mate. Some attended 2019 Independence Daycelebrations in Washington expecting Kennedy to appear.[100][101] 

On June 28, 2018, a Time magazine article listed the anonymous "Q" among the 25 Most Influential People on the Internet in 2018. Counting more than 130,000 related discussion videos on YouTube,   

Alan: The entire Wikipedia article can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAnon

Love

 A

On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 2:54 PM FV wrote:

Dear A

How large is this cult?
Are these people who would be instutionalized if we were still taking deranged people off the street?
It's hard to fathom any other explanation other than certifiably insane.

Love

F



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