There’s a little unrest concerning the ascendance of QAnon conspiracy theorists within the Republican Party, especially as one of them in Georgia is close to securing the nomination to a House seat in a safe Republican district. I thought this paragraph is certainly true, although QAnon theorists might be unhappy with the true reasons:
QAnon believers tend to support other conspiracy theories about government, experts said. And Trump has tacitly breathed life into these ideas. The central theme around QAnon fits his argument that he’s an outsider being dragged down by (mostly Democratic) lawmakers who feel threatened by him and the change he brings to governing. [WaPo]
And here’s the top two reasons Democrats are uncomfortable with Trump and his changes to governance:
- He pushes the idea that lies are truth.
- He pushes the idea that truths are lies.
Heavens, I just can’t bloody imagine why that would make Democrats nervous.
For the QAnon-inclined reader:
Bring out this QAnon leader and let’s see if he’s a Federal government employee, or if he speaks with an honest Russian accent.
You can’t produce the guy, but you want to prattle on about Deep Throat? This is a familiar ploy from the science field. For a good thirty five years I’ve heard the remark of people pushing silly theories of supposedly a scientific background that are not accepted is that, well, Hey, Einstein wasn’t accepted at first, either!
Thing is, for every Einstein there are one hundred THOUSAND kooks, at an easy estimate, people who are clueless but still think they’ve discovered perpetual motion machines. Einstein did hard work and won Nobels for it, and his theoretical work eventually translated into technology, from atom bombs to transistors. Just as much of medicine and biology is dependent on theories of biological evolution being true, so does most of technology – or maybe all of it.
If there was any consilience for QAnon – corroborating, independent, objective lines of evidence – I’d be interested. There isn’t. It’s all nonsense. And so that’s what the prattling wannabe politicians are consuming and, no doubt, will be soon peddling.
Sorry, QAnon kids. It’s just another scam, and you’re the scammed. Fortunately, for most of you it’s just your self-respect you’ve lost. And the security of your country. Yeah, that’s what electing Trump got you.
