The last image in this post really highlights the core of the problem here. The issue with Qanon is not that a bunch of "nuts" have all found a new conspiracy of the week. It is that the present realities of our society and world are damaging people's brains.
There have always been people who built their lives around conspiracy theories because the reality of existence was bleaker than a fantasy.
Now life is so bleak that millions of Americans would prefer believing they are in a losing fight with a cabal of demon pedophiles.
Now life is so bleak that millions of Americans would prefer believing they are in a losing fight with a cabal of demon pedophiles.
There is nothing new in the nature of what Qanon claims about reality. What is different is how many people are eager to embrace Q over their own families. They receive more comfort from the fantasy than they do from their flesh and blood family.
