No, I still don’t get it.
Q is quite simple at its root.
The idea is that there is a fundamental conflict between the American leadership and its institutions, all of them, against the people. There is an ongoing class or caste war, the “cold civil war” everyone is talking about.
You can find the same idea all over, from Angelo Codevilla (whom you should read, start with his essay “America’s Ruling Class”, 2010) to Steve Bannon to Barak Obama to the NYT itself, on occasion anyway. Its become an accepted situation, even if it is just a tacit acceptance.
The details of the nature of the alienation of the elite vs the common man is where you can have issues with Qanon, and where Q diverges from the now-accepted framing of Codevilla et al. That is because Q has a lot more to say.
- Q started with the “conspiracy theory” that there was a conspiracy by the Justice Department and various security agencies like the CIA, with the approval of Obama and the entire national leadership of the time, to remove Trump. We now know that this was 100% true. And that it could all come out completely through “DECLAS”, often mentioned in Qanon, which of course it has. Q was 3 years ahead of most people. In its details, Q got one very big thing right at least.
Indeed, if some future researcher were to write a comprehensive history of this conspiracy and the battles over it, he would do well to start with Q’s framing of it, of the roles of the various participants and the parameters of the conflict, and endeavor to flesh them out.
- The point of the frequent mention of pedophilia and child trafficking is that the ruling class has become irremediably corrupt. Q asserts that this includes deliberately looking the other way from the worst excesses of many members of the elite. Think of the Catholic Church when it protected pedophile priests. And then consider how they dealt with Epstein and his “black book”, all of which affair is still being protected (interesting, no?). In these matters the ruling class is very vulnerable politically, even if only some of them are or were pedophiles, quite a lot more know a great deal that they are not telling. There are many secular equivalents to disgraced Cardinals like Law and McCarrick. This part makes sense though not yet padded out with sufficient substance. It would be interesting to see what is still unknown about Epstein.
- Q says that Trump was invited to run in 2015 by a cabal of military intelligence officers, disgusted by the way the government was trending. This is the foundation myth of Q. There is no good evidence yet that it is true. By its nature there may never be such evidence.
- Q strongly implies that there have been a bunch of assassination attempts vs Trump, some of them conducted with the use of US government assets. In one case, involving an anti-aircraft missile. Again there is no specific evidence presented. Yet.
There are lots of details in the mass of Q posts, but the basic idea is really very conventional.