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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAn Idiocracy Based On A Digital Prophet': QAnon Longs For A Fascist Military Dictatorship
Reporter Ben Collins, in an article published by NBC News' website on December 22, takes a disturbing look at QAnon supporters who are yearning for President Donald Trump to impose a fascist military dictatorship and end liberal democracy in the United States.
"Flynn, a hero in the mythology of the QAnon conspiracy theory who once took a QAnon 'oath' on video, has said in appearances on the conservative media channel Newsmax that Trump should use the military to 'rerun' the election," Collins observes.
Attorney Sidney Powell, who has been working with Wood on election-related lawsuits, has used the QAnon hashtag #TheStormIsComing, which, Collins notes, is "a QAnon phrase that refers to the extrajudicial roundup of Democrats at the heart of the theory."
According to Collins, "Some QAnon followers believe Trump is left with no choice but to declare martial law - a belief based in part on a series of wildly false news articles that have claimed that Trump is in a secret, ongoing land war with China in parts of the U.S. A series of fake news articles, YouTube videos and tweets that went viral among QAnon acolytes last week led followers to believe Trump was conducting clandestine military operations on U.S. soil."
https://www.alternet.org/2020/12/qanon-2649643344/
ck4829
(38,093 posts)Wounded Bear
(64,637 posts)It's the same one I took.
ck4829
(38,093 posts)So I'm just like "why?" is it a big thing for these q-knuckleheads that Flynn took an oath, crazy.
A HERETIC I AM
(24,903 posts)do not have a negative opinion of "Dictatorship" and other Authoritarian types of government. WHich should surprise no one as so many Americans subscribe to what is basically an authoritarian religious mythology.
Yeah, I said it! On Christmas, even!
This is your conservative political ideology at work, over the course of just a few decades.
ck4829
(38,093 posts)Another example in that vein; there's a movement called the "dark enlightenment" which views the enlightenment and the abolishing of things like the divine right of kings to be horrible and terrible things. That we should return to feudalism.
Here's what they think would happen if they got their dark enlightenment to happen: They would be the king but if not, they get to be the court alchemist, wizard, or the playboy who does nothing on the king's court other than be a part of his entourage
And here's what would REALLY happen if they got their dark enlightenment to happen: They would get the bum's rush out of the castle by a new wave knight and they would find themselves scrounging for turnips outside of their hut made of sticks and mud
Any dystopia is OK to them as long as they get a benefit from that dystopia.
A HERETIC I AM
(24,903 posts)John Steinbeck nailed it;

And they would be the first to complain and whine when it bites them in the ass.
Proof? The idiots who think masks and so-called lockdowns infringe on their rights.
I never had any idea how many arrogantly ignorant assholes live in the US.
Cirque du So-What
(29,885 posts)who dont have lofty expectations, but are OK with a feudal system if certain ethnicities and minorities were treated even worse than they are.
Arne
(3,609 posts)they are on drugs, and I don't mean Adderall.
Major Nikon
(36,927 posts)They refer to it as the "storm" when all the Democrat pedophile cannibals will be rounded up and summarily executed.
November 3, 2017 -- Nothing happened that day
December 14, 2020 -- Biden officially receives 306 total electoral votes
December 27, 2020 -- This one came after the Dec 14th day didn't happen. The loons claim Trump decided to wait till after Xmas.
The best part is the loons are completely unfazed when these dates come and go. Instead of realizing their internet prophet is completely full of shit, they just keep parroting out the latest nonsense.
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