QAnon is, well, anonymous. Nobody knows who most them are, or to what ends they are uttering the ridiculous conspiracies they say. On the surface, it would appear they are simply a right-wing group propped up by right-wing conservatives in the Republican Party who believe there is a "deep state" group which is out to bring an end to the present administration. There is, however, no evidence of such a group.
Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican winner in the Primary from the 14th District of Georgia for the U.S. House of Representatives, ran as a strong QAnon supporter. She openly uttered her beliefs of ridiculous conspiracies by the group. However, after she won, she seems to be walking away from those beliefs. It is obvious she used them to gain her win. Now, her would-be fellow Republicans in the U.S. House are shaking in their boots at the thought she may become one of them.
Conspiracies are killing our democracy. The stranger they are, the more supporters they seem to gain. But, while today's lies are the wildest ever heard in America, they are not unique. They are, however, greatly amplified when the current president not only agrees with them, but weaponizes them by showing his support. This is lunacy!
In 1947, U. S. Senator Joe McCarthy (R-Wisconsin) held endless investigations because he had a theory that our government was knee-deep in communist members. He claimed 250+ were employed in our State Department. He was unable to prove any of it, but it smeared the lives of many good Americans on McCarthy's false conspiracy theories. He was eventually censured by his own Republican-controlled U.S. Senate in 1950. (Today's GOP-controlled Senate seems to lack such a backbone.)
Conspiracy theories dwell in the minds
of people who trust no one.
And therein lies the root problem.
An Opinion by John Watson
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