General thought about susceptibility to "child sex trafficking" theme: I recall in 'free range kids' discussions 5 or 10 years ago being stunned how many Americans thought kids were nabbed off the street every day
If I wanted to start a CT, sure would have been attractive 1/
A bit abstract since I"m not a parent myself, but before pizzagate or Q, there was talk about abductions, and I'd see people say they had relatives or neighbors who figured a kid left alone in a front yard for an hour had a good chance of being kidnapped 2/
Or ancedotes about being scared to let a child even go to the mailbox and back.
When you think about it, that's absurd, like there were massive fleets of pedo-abduction vans circling every suburban subdivision 3/
But from what I kept hearing, this was a real fear of a surprisingly large number of American middle-class parents. Again, long before pizza/Q existed, really even before mass Facebook etc use among that age group 4/
At a minimum, that seems like a strong pre-existing if unfocussed and not initially politicized fear for Q type conspiracies to evolve out of 5/
And if I were *trying* to start a politicized mass conspiracy theory, then wow, "child abduction fears" would seem like a good strategic hook for me to start with. 6/6
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