YOUA high percentage of Republican voters think there really was mass fraud in the elections that President Trump lost by nearly seven million votes in 2020, 81 to 74. If that were true, those who stormed the capital would be patriots and not some vulgar lawbreakers convinced by Trump that the Democrats need to be changed. But it is not true.
Let’s see.
It was an impressive wildlife. Jacob Chamsley, aka Jake Angeli, entered the Capitol through one of the windows smashed by the raging crowd. He wore a curious coyote-skin helmet with two huge buffalo horns sticking out. His face was painted warlike red, blue and white, the colors of the American flag. His costume was the most flashy. If they had given out prizes, they would have won the first. The horns and helmet concealed his aggressive baldness. He had some kind of huge dagger tattooed on his stomach, I think. It was QAnon’s shaman.
Shamans are the priests of the primitive tribes. They act as healers and have, they say, supernatural powers. QAnon is a combination of one of the highest grades of those with access to American secrets assigned the Q, while Anon is a contraction of ‘Anonymous’. Several times, a mysterious letter Q has signed some of the “conspiracy theories” circulating on the Internet.
Interestingly enough, Mr. Angeli had to disprove one of the most amazing conspiracy theories put forth by the most stale Trumpism: that he was in reality a provocateur placed under right-wing patriots by the Antifa or Black Lives Matter mob to sow the chaos and disorder that could be seen in the capital on January 6.
In a tweet the shaman sent to Lin Wood, Donald Trump’s attorney, and himself an expert in spreading these rumors, Angeli explained that he was forced to fight these villains. Without delay, he continued the hunger strike he had set up in prison, as long as the judge did not give him the organic food that his slim shaman body needed. The judge, generous and surety, gave him the food that the defendant had requested.
The list of “conspiracy theories” is almost endless. They have to do with the importance of the protagonists. That is why the Jews are an inexhaustible source of rumors. Since the origin of the trial took place in the synagogues, and Rome was the center of the world when Emperor Theodosius I in the fourth century declared those who disobeyed the Christian bishops of the Nicaean rite ‘mad or wicked’, the poor Jews began drink the blood of the children, to poison the drinking water sources, to spread the plagues and to any dog their opponents could think of.
Those villains have been circulating ever since. An Anderson Cooper, host and commentator on CNN (that is, the perfect definition of ‘enemy of the people’ in those heated minds), asked Jitarth Jadeja (of Hindu origin, but American), QAnon renegade, if he really believed that he, Cooper, fed on the flesh of children who had previously drunk their blood. Jadeja said yes and asked for forgiveness. His explanation was that if you were part of a cult, you risked believing something.
Believing, for example, that on September 11, 2001, there was a secret inaction of the military that did not respond adequately to the attack on the Twin Towers or the Pentagon.
Or to claim that that day, oh coincidence, no Jew went to work in the Twin Towers. But the palm goes to denial that a hostages plane crashed into the Pentagon building “because no one saw it.”
Is there a sudden cure for those who believe in conspiracy theories? I am afraid not. There is a reality therapy that can convince you that you are bad and it is helpful if you change your behavior, otherwise you will end up in jail or die. But eliminating the kind of absurd thoughts that make you believe in zombies or aliens visiting us doesn’t have a clear and immediate payoff.
If Donald Trump were to declare tomorrow that he really lost the election, there would be deep disappointment in his ranks, but no change of belief. Many would say he was forced by the “deep state” to save the lives of his children. They would turn the nut again. That’s all.