[NYtimes] The QAnon Candidates Are Here.

Ubiquitin · Jul 14, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/us/politics/qanon-politicians-candidates.html?utm_source=digg

What a bizarre manifestation of moral panic. These loons think they're living out Fight Club.

These are the people that I was referring to, @MadMax

The movement defies easy political labels, and its adherents include a smattering of Democrats and independents. Mostly, what unites it is a hatred of the establishment.

“It’s not like a QAnon supporter went down a path where they got into George Bush and then started to read Ronald Reagan’s speeches, and then bought Milton Friedman’s ‘Capitalism and Freedom,’ and then believed in satanic baby eaters,” said Joseph Uscinski, a professor at the University of Miami who studies fringe groups. “It doesn’t work like that.”

Mr. Trump “won by saying that he wanted to drain the swamp,” Dr. Uscinski said. “By doing that, he essentially built a coalition of people with anti-establishment views.” Those who believe in QAnon, the professor added, “are probably the most extreme part of that coalition.”

In Western Colorado late last month, Lauren Boebert, a gun-rights activist who has made approving comments about QAnon, beat a five-term Republican incumbent and will now defend the sprawling district in November. In recent weeks she told the QAnon-aligned web show “Steel Truth” that “everything I’ve heard of Q — I hope this is real.”
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Invisible Fan · Jul 14, 2020

This will grow as long as the Beast is starved by the Golden Bull.

The public institutions weakened by low funding and deregulation are direct proxies for people interfacing with the government. It's a natural base for people disenfranchised by public authorities (government, press, academia, corporations...)

Ubiquitin · Jul 14, 2020

Invisible Fan said: ↑

This will grow as long as the Beast is starved by the Golden Bull.

The public institutions weakened by low funding and deregulation are direct proxies for people interfacing with the government. It's a natural base for people disenfranchised by public authorities (government, press, academia, corporations...)
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Maybe I am a romantic, but I think it is a far stretch from being disgusted with or apathetic toward the government due to believing it is corrupt to believing politicians and celebrities are drinking the blood of children... because they are corrupt.

Ubiquitin · Jul 14, 2020

And somehow, they manage to shoe horn in Jewish people and Israel being evil as well.

Invisible Fan · Jul 14, 2020

Ubiquitin said: ↑

Maybe I am a romantic, but I think it is a far stretch from being disgusted with the government due to believing it is corrupt to believing they're drinking the blood of children... because they are corrupt.
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I don't think people voting for Boebert are QAnonists but rather they're desperately looking for a vague process of sweeping change that Trump similarly offered.

"She's cuckoo crazy...but at least she's AUTHENTIC! I'll give him a chance over the other lying bozos..."

Ubiquitin · Jul 14, 2020

https://forward.com/news/national/4...out-qanon-the-trump-base-s-latest-pet-theory/

This older article attributes the QAnon core as predominantly evangelical Trump voters.

Who believes this stuff?

It’s unclear. University of Miami professor Joseph Uscinski, who studies conspiracy theories, told the Guardian that QAnon beliefs are only held by “a very small number of people,” most of whom are Trump-supporting evangelical Christians.

“Don’t confuse the popularity of this with the popularity of Kennedy assassination theories,” he said.

At the same time, though, QAnon followers are able to rocket their videos and hashtags to the top of sites like YouTube and Twitter.

And sometimes their actions have spilled into the real world: A man was arrested last month after barricading himself inside an armored truck on top of the Hoover Dam in protest of a Justice Department report often cited by QAnon followers. True believers also held a march outside the White House in April. In the past month, QAnon has popped up on a billboard in Georgia and at multiple Trump rallies.

Does this conspiracy theory feature nefarious Jews?

Of course it does!

QAnon followers believe that billionaire financier and philanthropist George Soros is part of the cabal planning Trump’s overthrow, as are members of the Rothschild family. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is frequently slammed by QAnon; members believe that the longtime Republican official is stymying Mueller from revealing the “truth” about Democratic malfeasance.

One sign at the rally referenced Seth Rich, a Democratic National Committee who was killed in 2016. Police believe that his death was likely the result of a botched robbery, but conspiracy theorists believe that his death was connected to, and possibly retribution for, the hacking of DNC servers (there is no proof of this).

Surprisingly, or perhaps not, one of the most prominent supporters of QAnon is Jewish actress Roseanne Barr, who was recently fired from her eponymous show for tweeting a racist slur. Many of her posts mentioning the conspiracy theory, including those tying it to Soros or pedophilia, have since been deleted.

QAnon also received a surprisingly credulous write-up in the Jewish magazine Tablet from “Homeland” writer Ted Mann.
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