When the mayor of Sequim openly, proudly traffics in some of the worst, most ridiculous, most dangerous conspiracy theories, it’s time he steps down from the demands of his office and seeks treatment.
QAnon is not a “movement that encourages you to think for yourself.”
It is an effort to get you to blindly accept assertions and allegations without thinking about them at all.
To think for yourself you have to ask questions about it, demand evidence, verifiable, accurate evidence, work through the arguments being made to see if they make any sense.
QAnon is not a “movement of people…fighting for truth and freedom and…shin[ing] the light on evils of humanity.”
It is a group of people who believe in and spread a variety of baseless conspiracy theories, every one of which has been repeatedly debunked.
It is a group of people for whom facts, evidence, logic, realitym are either irrelevant or are twisted beyond recognition, taken out of context, or constructed in bizarre, nonsensical ways to support their theories.
Time was when the notions propagated by QAnon were as summarily and properly dismissed as the rantings of your crazy uncle or the drunk at the far end of the bar.
That it has now moved into the realm of acceptable should be raising all kinds of alarms.
That our mayor is urging others to support it the way he does?
Unbelievable.
Oh, and by the way, just because people disagree with you doesn’t mean they’re ignoring your constitutional rights.
Ken Stringer
Sequim