re: "What Do We Do About Q?" (The New York Times, October 26, 2020)
Western civilization has seen this before. Rome fell as the invaders and their false god who was then three in one, or one in three, or whatever his incredibly infallible men on Earth dictated, trampled the classical trinity of reason, facts and moral reflection beneath their insistence on absolutely blind faith.
QAnon dictates the same ideological purity from its faithful. Reason is the surest antidote, hence labelled the great heresy. Science especially is reviled as blasphemy, but all critical thinking, not excepting the moral virtues of tolerance, honesty and truth seeking, is suspect by those committed to ideological purity.
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