Rick Wilson, The Daily Beast; Trump Fans Are Suckers and QAnon Is Perfect for Them
"Conspiracies are hard. They're even harder when you're stupid.
They
are, however, deeply compelling. Some people need a single, grand
unifying theory of why the world refuses to line up with their
expectations. When difficult realities confront people without the
intellectual horsepower to understand and accept the truth, some turn to
conspiracy theories to paper over the holes in their worldview. No
matter how absurd, baroque, and improbable, conspiracies grow on their
own like mental kudzu where inconsistencies aren't signs of illogical
conclusions, but of another, deeper layer of some hidden truth, some
skein of powerful forces holding the world in its grip...
[Q] works because stupid people are stupid and because Donald Trump's
Administration loves what QAnon does to stoke the fires of paranoia,
resentment, and division. QAnon works for Trump because people who are
not knowledgeable about the world, politics, government, the
intelligence community and reality more broadly are desperately looking
for confirmation that they're on the winning team. Q tells them that
they're on the right side of history and that for once in their dreary
little lives they and only they possess the secret, hermetic knowledge
from inside the esoteric cult."
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Saturday, August 4, 2018
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