Journal Article

QUESTIONING QAnon

Shaw, C. Mitchell

2020

Overview

Again, the power of confirmation bias showed itself. Since it was obvious to any honest observer that President Trump was the victim of a tar-and-feather campaign, as well as a well-orchestrated witch hunt, Q seemed to \"fill in the blanks\" and explain what was really going on \"behind the scenes.\" [...]many suspended critical thinking and took - as unquestionable truth - whatever Q proposed, including Q's predictions of what would happen. [...]nothing predicted or claimed in the drop turned out to be true. [...]if someone who follows and cites Q on issues related to the Deep State conspiracy attempts to share information about an issue that is well documented - such as the evidence of actual collusion between Clinton and Russia - people have already ceased listening because the credibility of the person presenting the information has been sacrificed by repeating Q's myriad cries of \"wolf!\" Perhaps it would ameliorate things to at least a small degree if Q had followed Drop #1 with something that had a shred of credibility, but instead, Drop #2 followed an hour and a half later with claims that \"HRC\" had been \"detained,\" but \"not arrested (yet)\" and enigmatic questions with no foundation in truth, such as, \"Why did Soros donate all his money recently?\" It is obvious two and a half years later that Hillary Clinton has not been detained or arrested.

• Publisher: American Opinion Publishing, Inc,The New American
• Subject: Bias / Churchill, Winston (British prime minister) / Clinton, Hillary Rodham / Conspiracy / Credibility / Critical thinking / Military reserves / Political campaigns / Presidents / Radio broadcasting industry / Trump, Donald J