The New York Times reports on a poll finding that 15% of Americans believe in QAnon conspiracy theories.
Those are the findings of a poll released todayby the Public Religion Research Institute and the Interfaith Youth Core, which found that 15 percent of Americans say they think that the levers of power are controlled by a cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophiles, a core belief of QAnon supporters. The same share said it was true that “American patriots may have to resort to violence” to depose the pedophiles and restore the country’s rightful order…
And fully 20 percent of respondents said that they thought a biblical-scale storm would soon sweep away these evil elites and “restore the rightful leaders…”
Mr. Jones said he was struck by the prevalence of QAnon’s adherents. Overlaying the share of poll respondents who expressed belief in its core principles over the country’s total population, “that’s more than 30 million people,” he said.
“Thinking about QAnon, if it were a religion, it would be as big as all white evangelical Protestants, or all white mainline Protestants,” he added. “So it lines up there with a major religious group.”
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OMG! Stupid is as stupid does.
So around 20% of Americans are enthusiastic supporters of the violent overthrow of the US Government. This is a number comparable to the public support of the Nazi Party around 1930. Hopefully this is not the start of a similar self-destructive cycle.
self-destructive: that strange human hunger
These statistics are frightening. Widespread delusion is a danger to democracy. QAnon is not just a fringe group.
Hard to know whether to laugh or cry. This is the “nj” in “rwnj.”
It wouldn’t be surprising if the tin-foil-hat element had increased in response to plague of Biblical proportions. OTOH, have we ever done a nutjob poll before? Maybe this is status quo.
And these are the same people who believe that IQ45 has a USB stick with all the dirt on these satanic/ baby eating pedofiles (where is it?), that Wayfair increased their prices because they were shipping children for the sex industry into the US from foreign countries (Save the Children was their front!), Bill Gates was developing the vaccine so that he could implant a microchip with the fake vaccine so that everyone could be tracked. SO many more of these crazy notions are out there! These people must be awarded with the Tin Foil Hat Award for craziest conspiracy theories! Give me the good old fashioned seekers of the little green men in UFO’s anytime….I’m done with the Tin Foil Hat clan!
“Qanon believers as numerous as some major religions”
Well, there is more than one way to interpret that. 😀
What do you think the odds are that most if not all of those QAnon cultists are also white evangelical Protestants and QAnonn is a separatist religion faction that should be called what it is: QEFP.
QAnon Evangelical Fundamentalist Protestants are supporters of domestic terrorists or domestic terrorits.
Even a bully on a playground knows that silence is permission.
If you polled Congress, how many would say they would denounce the KKK or for that matter, openly denounce what Hitler did? No equivocating. Flat out denounce in the strongest terms.
That’s where we are. We hear all about “oh, we’ve become ‘numb’ to the shootings or ‘oh, that’s just that crazy lady, she doesn’t mean it.'”
To paraphrase… “It’s the CULTURE stupid.”
From the Access Hollywood tape and “There’s good people on both sides” and forward, nothing is shocking – and nothing is impermissible.
There are new norms, new lines ok to cross, and sick leaders.
And, hundreds of local, state, and federal elected folks who have jumped on the bandwagon are afraid to say “this is wrong.”
So who is saying to the local folks looking to belong to something “this is wrong?” Definitely not their gop governors and congresswhitemen.
Current issues aside, when Governor Cuomo said no state funds would be used for travel – conferences, meetings, and college sports – to North Carolina when they refused transgender restrooms, that taught a lesson. You stand up for what matters.
When Major League Baseball says, “We’re moving the All-star Game out of Georgia” – that teaches a lesson. You stand up for what matters.
Oh well. “They” (GOP) just sent a message that It doesn’t matter that people armed with guns and mace attacked the Capitol and police died. Police died and they do nothing.
Privatization of education has the potential to further split our already fragmented society. Left to their own devices, the right establishes isolated “Jeb Crow” enclaves of insular thinking and segregation. Privatization undermines a primary function of pubic education which has a mission of bringing disparate groups together for mutual understanding and acceptance. America needs quality public education to build the future together. When it is done right, the results are quite remarkable. I witnessed the tremendous “social capital” integrated schools provide. The world does not need more Donald Trumps. His private school education did not serve him well, and neither did his family. It is shameful that public money flows to private schools that seek to further divide us.
Just a normal tourist group.
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QAnon is not an exclusive “religion”. It’s adherents include evangelicals and, at a lesser rate, Catholics, 1 in 6. (60 Minutes data)
Michael Flynn was one of the main scheduled speakers at a QAnon conference at the Omni Dallas Hotel (reported 3-24-2021)
This is horrifying.
That’s the correct word. Thanks for finding it.
This is real.
It45’s response to this cult was so characteristic.
“when pressed to denounce the theory, he refused…” “I understand they like me very much, which I appreciate… The ‘movement’ is gaining in popularity.”
100% transactional.
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Probably similar numbers to Russiagate believers.
You didn’t hear about the recent massive Russian hack? And the latest about Red Rudy the former president’s compromised personal attorney?
Since WordPress would not allow me to post in Cyrillic, I’ll do it this way:
Da, tovarich, da! Ya soglasen. Nyet!
Dienne, bless her heart, is one of the few remaining doubters that Russia hacked into the 2016 election. Just today, The NY Times reported another Russian government-sponsored hack into US AID files.
May 29, 2021
Updated 2:14 p.m. ET
As the country learns more about a broad Russian hijacking of American federal agencies and private companies and now another Russian hack, which was revealed on Thursday, it can look to the Democratic National Committee for a more positive development in the effort to prevent cyberattacks: Unlike four years ago, the committee did not get hacked in 2020.
It’s worth remembering the D.N.C.’s outsized role in Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, when a spearphishing email roiled the Democratic Party in the final months of the campaign.
That March, Russian hackers broke into the personal email account of John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, unlocking a decade’s worth of emails, before dribbling them out to the public with glee. The D.N.C. chairwoman, Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida, resigned after emails appeared to show her favoring Mrs. Clinton over Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
A simultaneous Russian hack of the D.N.C.’s sister organization, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, tainted congressional candidates with accusations of scandal in a dozen other races.
“Bless her heart” is the ultimate southern mockery. Uvazhat!
QAnon “beliefs” deliver the exact same endorphin high as a video game and in much the same manner.
Mario Qart for the oldies!
Comprehensive background info. about the “Stop the Steal” insurrection was recently posted by Huffpo, “How Republican Politics Created Ali Alexander…”.
The article describes various activists like Alexander who self-describes as a militant Christian. Also included is columnist Michelle Malkin, a graduate of a religious high school. She prepared a reading list for America First. It included 2 books by Kevin MacDonald, a retired university professor. The faculty senate at his school voted to disassociate from him. A wikipedia entry for MacDonald describes his religious upbringing. He has an unusual and dangerous view about one religious minority in particular.
The Huffpo article mentions the usual right wing activists Mercer, Koch, Thiel, Bannon. It covers links that involve the Kremlin and Neo-Nazis.
Names not as familiar are also listed, Matt Heimbach (influenced by Pat Buchanan), New York State assembly leader, Jim Tediscio,…