Ever since Joe Biden was sworn in as president, stories of disillusioned voters have flooded the news.
Among the most far-fetched are those who belong to the cult QAnon who were led to believe that former President Donald Trump would somehow take back the presidency.
Some believe QAnon is a covert U.S. military intelligence operation.
It is not.
Most likely, it is a sick group of individuals who get their jollies purporting a wide array of conspiracy theories that frequently target Democrats and celebrities.
On Saturday, CNN broadcaster Anderson Cooper interviewed a man who admitted he had fallen “So far down this conspiracy black hole” of QAnon that he believed Cooper regularly participates in Satanic rituals.
“Was there something about me that made you think that?” Anderson asked the man.
No, he replied, “It’s because Q specifically mentioned you.”
The man, an Australian, then apologized to Cooper, saying, “I apologize for thinking you eat babies.”
When people blindly believe, that is a cult.
In this person’s case, he left the movement in 2019 after taking it upon himself to challenge some of QAnon’s theories.
Perhaps it was the bit about blue aliens that flipped the switch.
“I at one stage believed that QAnon was part of military intelligence, which is what he says. But on top of that, Q said the people behind him were actually a group of fifth-dimensional, intradimensional, extraterrestrial bipedal bird aliens called blue aliens.”
We’re struggling to picture that.
QAnon inhabits the internet netherworld. Other favorite memes are that Democrats are programmed robots, pedophiles, and run child-trafficking rings.
