The quiet damage of QAnon is only now becoming clear.
According to some estimates, tens of millions of Americans have bought into QAnon, whether they know it or not: Afrom the Public Religion Research Institute found that roughly 30 million Americans believed “a group of Satan-worshiping pedophiles who run a global child sex trafficking operation” control “the government, media, and financial worlds in the U.S.” That numberWe are still in the process of understanding just how much the movement has poisoned our politics.
Those two approaches—one, getting her to gently question her convictions, and the other, getting her to look at the toll they were taking on her in the grand scheme of things—got her to take a step back.I definitely don’t think even 2 out of every 5 believers finds a way back out. Matt’s journey out of QAnon is maybe the most remarkable, because he lost everyone who cared about him, his family fell apart, there was no one left around him to pull him back out.
You see minority groups that in some ways are both victimized and villainized by the conspiracy theories QAnon espouses. I think that can be really puzzling to people on a surface level, but if you consider what conspiracy theory beliefs offer to people, it becomes a little easier to digest. Kendra comes from a remarkably disadvantaged background, and when pointed out to her that this is essentially a white supremacist movement, Kendra just couldn’t hear it.
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