QAnon and On

Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia won the GOP nomination for the U.S. House seat of her district, and the party establishment happily welcomed her to the team after having previously denounced her for being a follower of the QAnon phenomenon, which is a cult of tin-foil-hat-wearing individuals who believe in an anonymous person known as "Q".  Q claims to be a supporter of Donald Trump who has information linking d many Democratic politicians and politically liberal celebrities to devil-worshipers and an international child sex-trafficking ring. Q has also claimed that Donald Trump pretended to collude with the Russians to get Robert Mueller to investigate him so he could, by "accident," expose a plot by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, among others, to stage a coup d'état against Trump in their quest for world domination.

 

So many Republicans buy this theory, though, that it threatens to dictate policy in Washington and have Republicans go after Democrats in a witch hunt that suggests that Nancy Pelosi is literally a witch.

I miss the Tea Party right now.

Conspiracy theories have been a part of the American body politic for a long, long time, but now it's going beyond the pale, so undereducated and misinformed are Americans today.  Anyone who doesn't take this QAnon thing seriously had best wake up, because if enough of them get into power, they'll snuff out the freedoms that they pretend to be standing up for.

We must look even more ridiculous to the rest of the world than we ever did before, and that's a huge accomplishment.  If Biden wins the Presidency, and if Democrats keep the House and gain back the Senate,  one can only hope that the QAnon caucus is relegated to back benches so far back they'll be sitting in broom closets during congressional sessions.  There may not be enough broom closets in the Capitol to fit them.