[ChessExpert]

I can’t say I got much out of the QAnon posts that I saw at FreeRepublic. Nor did I see much in this article!

Yes. If QAnon was a government sponsored disinformation campaign, that was a bad thing. However, did it have any affect? It reminds me of the allegation that Russia posted misinformation on the internet that resulted in Trump becoming President. What misinformation? I recall no specifics.

I could be wrong. What bits of information are critical to our judgment. How many would have to change in order to change our opinion. Certainly, my liberal friends and relatives have acquired a different worldview than me, or than they had in the past. How does that come to be?

I think the big things are obvious; we have just become oblivious to them. The newspapers, news magazines, and television are wholly Democrat and liberal productions. What my mother-in-law calls the nightly news, I call the daily indoctrination. She believes whatever “they” believe, what “everyone” knows. Is there any limit? Is there anything so dubious that she would not, by degrees, come to believe it?

[Kalam]

A lot of the effects of Qanon's impact were done at the grass roots level. There is no way to Quantify that type of impact.

[bigfootbob]

Probably not.

[Magnatron]

However, did it have any affect?

Yes, it sedated certain people who sat thinking their salvation was near, and it outed many to the intelligence apparatus as people to monitor and keep tabs on for future operations…

[bagster]

You are completely describing the very purpose of the Q operation. To wake people up from the indoctrination and show them how the real world works. And how the government has been lying to the people for hundreds of years.

Look around you, and notice a new level of awareness and distrust of government, not only here in America, but around the world.

That was Trump's plan. There can be no change without a fundamental GREAT AWAKENING of the people. That is the plan, even Flynn acknowledges that.

[9YearLurker]

The Russian disinformation bit was itself disinformation—and yes, it had an effect.

Lots of Dems are still convinced that Trump was a traitor and Barry and Hillary weren’t instead the ones selling out to Putin.

[Kalam]

A lot of the effects of Qanon's impact were done at the grass roots level. There is no way to Quantify that type of impact.

[ChessExpert]

“I think the big things are obvious; we have just become oblivious to them.”

One more thing that seems obvious and true is that QAnon was at least on the right side. Rather than blame him/it/them, blame ABC news, CBS news, NBC news, NPR, PBS, etc.

[Reeses]

What my mother-in-law calls the nightly news, I call the daily indoctrination. She believes whatever “they” believe, what “everyone” knows. Is there any limit?

There are reasons she is a mother-in-law. Nature is always having to adapt to keep human reproduction going. In humans, nature has come to rely heavily on hormone induced insanity, in both sexes, as well as people that are easily tricked, lied to, manipulated, and don't ask too many questions. That's the biological reason crazy sheeple are the majority in the world today.