As, by now, we all know, there were plenty of QAnon supporters amid the chaos at the Capitol in January. You could see many banners with the Q rabbit denoting the QAnon slogan “Follow the white rabbit.” There seems to me to be two forces in our country today, both sides are defended by elected officials and both claim the other one doesn’t exist. If you recall, Joe Biden told us that Antifa is a philosophy not an organization. And although many Republican elected officials adhere to the Q they say it doesn’t exist as well.
Karl Marx always talked about a specter haunting Europe, and I think these two specters are haunting America, and the American political scene. We can all agree that Antifa fashions themselves as a modern Bolshevik party. However, what is QAnon?
QAnon is jumbled theories that say Donald Trump is waging a secret war against the elite, Satan worshipping pedophiles in government and the media. They suffered a huge disappointment when Dr. Jill’s husband was sworn in and commandos did not come down on hot ropes and arrest all the offenders. By the way, I’m really drawn into the Jewish laser beam that started forest fires.
To explain QAnon, I myself am an alcoholic and a drug addict. The organization of Alcoholics Anonymous has a rule. We only use our first names. So that’s where the Anon comes from. According to my reading and listening, Q is a high ranking person inside the government, a source who apparently from time to time actually talks to Alex Jones and other selected elite. But beginning in October 2017, Q put out a series of posts on a message board known as 4chan. He signed off as Q and claimed to have a level of U.S. security approval known as the Q Clearance. These messages became known as Q drops or, if you’re following along at home, breadcrumbs, often written in a very cryptic language with pledges, pro Trump themes, slogans and riddles. True believers, and I’ve spoken to them, contend that deliberate misinformation is sewn into Q’s message so the conspiracy theory is impossible to disprove.
Brilliant historians have dubbed stuff like this parallel histories. Almost any event today or through history, if it’s important enough, from the crucifixion of Jesus to the writing of the Torah, to who shot Kennedy, a parallel set of tracks runs next to mainstream history. True believers are a frightening bunch. Like those of you who still believe Donald Trump had the election stolen from him.
If opinion polls are correct there are hundreds of thousands if not millions of people who believe in some of the bizarre theories offered by QAnon. People’s careers have been trashed, jobs have been lost. In fact, the Q people have survived with many predictions not coming true. Like almost all of them.
In a post Donald Trump world, Q believes Donald Trump is a savior who will stay in power and wage war against the cabal of satanic pedophiles. And for Q believers who saw President Biden get sworn in instead of Donald Trump it was a reality check. But it doesn’t seem to matter. In fact, the QAnon community has survived.
As crazy as Q is, was, and always will be, they are far less dangerous than Antifa. Militias are being formed in this country, battle lines are being drawn and who controls the streets has been an age old question dating back to the French Revolution. QAnon has survived after Donald Trump. Antifa and Black Lives Matter claim Joe Biden owes them for the win.
Remember this, Marjorie Taylor Greene posted a picture of herself holding a gun alongside images of Democrats like AOC, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib. That’s kind of Q-ee, isn’t it?
See you next month.
— Peter Boyles
