SKEPTICAL OF LOUD VOICES

I watched Anderson Cooper narrate an hour TV primer on QAnon (“Q”).  Anderson (know as "A Cooper” on the deep web)  was trying to reason with a man who wrote the commentator that he wanted to execute him (exact reasons were unclear). A fallback for Q is promising to execute evil celebrities; that seems to up recruitment numbers. There’s more. Did anyone know there was a tunnel running underground from the Vatican to Jerusalem?

That a cabal of child-molesting liberals (Republicans and Democrats) suck blood from small children to gain special powers? Every decade, our country has prophets of revolution and conspiracy theorists. The American Nazi Party in the Thirties. The John Birch Society in the Fifties. The Tea Party  Republican wing starting in 2010.  Today, social media changes the game in so many ways that we should pay close attention. Q flourishes because  too many Americans need to  express their rage over being left out and left behind. The absurd conspiracy claims come from the manipulators. What’s real is the fear and frustration of those craving leadership and believe they have to settle for the loudest voice.
I’m hoping the Pandemic ebbs soon, Congress pays a $15 hourly minimum wage, and America gets busy with infrastructure and climate change.  That’s something we should all be able to get behind.