Reading news and events, even taking away the Q factor, the state of the country (and world) is everything that you describe, and more.
So why people feel the need to come to Q threads and act like a seagull, I do not know.
I'm still working on that one. I think there's an element of sorta a "virtue signaling" turned sideways. They are signaling that they are the rationale ones. That they are not kookoobirds. I think they see it as their mission to represent FreeRepublic as anything but a "conspiracy site."
They are keeping us pure and unsullied, in their minds. Their mission is to put us down like the mad dogs they would portray us as. They have been conditioned this way by the very enemy we fight. They are good people. Most Freepers and Conservatives are. But sometimes even they don't understand how they have been conditioned.
I have many theories. This one is not completely settled on yet.