“Americans“ are simply losing their minds. There are today powerful Evangelical “Christian Zionists” who believe in “End Times” and “Rapture” in our military and State Department. These types have existed in society for ages, as have religious sects, and other nutcases. but in this nuclear age when the U.S. empire is in difficulties, it is worrisome that our President is willing to encourage this madness to serve his own political interest.
We have seen this sort of conduct from Trump a hundred times before. He is not so dumb as he pretends, not so “ignorant” of Q-Anon. His responses are sly, and well thought out. Millions of today’s Republicans and “independent” rightwing populists enjoy accusIng Democrats and Liberals of being “demons,” “baby killing Communists” and of course pedophiles. Such people “like Trump” as he says, and he will not disabuse them of anything else they believe, no matter how lunatic.
Democrats may be nuts too, but their nuttiness rarely has the same truly bizarre quality. Yes there was Jonestown, but that was decades ago — a unique paranoid messiah cult which withdrew from society. Q-Anon is part of today’s internet conspiracy-mongering zeitgeist. I know plenty of slightly mad Democrats — mainstream liberal media can drive anybody a little crazy with its lies, exaggerations and obsessions. Especially if you believe all of it.
In my opinion there is more madness in the Q-Anon phenomenon than meets the eye. Not that Q-Anon supporters are important in themselves. They are just a symptom of much deeper problems in society, and now too of our President’s utterly devious and unprincipled opportunism.