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Pam R's avatar

Unfortunately, it is not just white people getting taken in. I know people of color who have gotten sucked in to QAnon and other conspiracy theories as well. It's a factor of disenfranchisement across every demographic. It's a serious problem that foreign agents are exploiting and amplifying. Why wouldn't they? As you point out, few countries are not similarly afflicted. So, this economic exploitation that began in the 80s is a serious threat, not only to democracy, but to national security, and also to the future of the planet. It's the most serious threat humanity has ever faced.

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Republicans have a long history of blaming the Democrats for doing what they themselves are actually engaged in. Is it projection? Is it prophylacitc cover? Most of it are things the rank and file are not even aware of. But for decades I have rankled my Republican acquaintances by showing them proof that what their party was casting blame onto others was really their own dirty laundry. That, of course, includes rigging elections and voter fraud.

It also includes other things that are much more sinister. Quick history - my best friend for decades was raised by his grandfather, a black magician, and Aleistar Crowley, another black magician from England who worked for English intelligence during WWIl, as well as U.S. intelligence. According to my friend, Aleister had a very deep dark side, which I discovered for myself when I researched his activities. While he presented himself as a very religious man, having founded the religion Thelema, he was in fact a Satanist. It was fortunate for my friend that Aleister passed away towards the end of 1947, when my friend was just nearing 14. He told me that one of the sagist bits of advice Aleister gave U.S. intelligence was to support both fundalmentalist Christianity and Satanism. He said the dynamics between the two would be like clay in their hands, and he was right.

More currently, we can observe how much the Republican party has relied on the fundamentalists, and ever more so as they have moved ever deeper into tyrannical authoritarianism. But the dark side was also very much present and wide-spread, though kept underground. Quite large Satanist groups abound, with the highest levels of authority in any given region being members. One of the largest was/is centered in Omaha. I have lost track of its existence, or lack thereof, since 2000, after 13 of our investigative group, originally organized by the mayor of Omaha and a family friend, were killed; one of them an FBI agent, the only clean agent in the Omaha office, who was run over on a downtown sidewalk the day he helped us break the story on the only one of three TV stations in town that was trustworthy. Another was a Cracker Jack investigator and former Green Beret who had been hired by the Nebraska State Legislature to look into the Satanism scandal surrounding the Franklin Credit Union, as well as his six-year-old son. The state legislature dropped the case, which centered around Lawrence E. King, Jr., director of Franklin Credit Union, who became a personal friend of H.W. Bush - and also provided young men for Bush's "midnight tours of the Whitehouse." A major mover and shaker in Washington, Jack Abramoff, went to prison, apparently for introducing King to Bush. King eventually went to prison as well, not for procuring or Satanistic pedophilia, but for embezzling from the credit union he ran.

What struck my first about Qanon was their first "conspiracy" about satanic rituals and child prostitution, even down to the pizza parlor - which in real life was directly across the street from the Omaha police department, and it had a basement. According to the FBI report by one of their most senior investigators, there were indeed Satanic rituals happening in that basement, which included the drinking of blood from infant sacrifices.

Do not think it highly unlikely that this could happen so close to police authority. They were in on it, along with the sheriff's department, the owner of the World Herald newspaper, the only daily in town, and the state attorney general, as well as the aforementined TV stations, and most of the radio stations as well. According to Alisha Owens, one of the escaped child victims who gave birth to a child by the country sheriff, H.W. and was responsible for exposing the whole operation, Bush was a fairly frequent guest at their pedophiliac orgies. According to what she told my ex partner, who is the mother of my son, he had a prediliction for 12-year-old boys. I was so happy that my son, by the time this was all starting to become known, was living in a different part of Nebraska and had already joined the Air Force.

As you can see, this all has a striking resemblence to Qanon's conspiracy. As I mentioned, I have been telling my Republican acquaintances about this sort of "projection" for decades, and I assumed this was more of the same. I also told my friends that I appreciated that the Republicans did this, as it kept me up to date on what they were up to, which infuriated them no end.

There of course is much more I could relate, but I hope this was enough to get my point across. Qanon preys on the mentally weak, but perhaps we need to look more closely at what it is they are putting out. The Republicans "project" like Hell. Literally.

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