...when you belong to a religion that tells you to dismiss logic and reason in favor of faith and obedience, it’s not that big of a leap for worshipers to accept a difference kind of mythology. If the members of your church are spreading QAnon memes online, then maybe you weren’t doing that great of a job teaching them how to think for themselves.
That’s not specific to evangelicals, obviously. But many of the factors that make a church grow and thrive — a sense of shared purpose, a feeling of knowing something others don’t understand, a desire for knowledge in any form — are the same weapons being used by online conspiracists. If those pastors, who rightly reject QAnon and just want their members back, don’t understand the role Christianity played in convincing people to adopt comforting myths that defy common sense, they have no chance of “saving” the people who need to be rescued.
"Awareness" was not the correct word.
Rather, they have a willingness to discuss the American deep state as a real, political actor that must be addressed. Many Americans are aware of the deep state, and QAnon has become extremely popular by virtue of being the only voice in this arena. Liberals & the Left have refused to touch this issue because they are afraid that the "conspiracy" label will alienate them from the people.
I'm hopeful that the Epstein case, the Democratic Primary, and the rise of QAnon will wake the Left up to this issue.
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The Left only exists in public consciousness through its representatives in the Democratic Party, so yeah, demsoc/socdem types. Those members of the Left only ever describe these issue in the abstract, never the specific. Describing the specifics would destroy their ill-conceived efforts to "infiltrate" the Democratic Party.
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