Posted on 11/27/2023 6:18:34 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
The man who bludgeoned former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband with a hammer last year consumed a steady diet of right-wing conspiracy theories before an attack that took place with the midterm elections less than two weeks away.
As the 2024 presidential campaign heats up, experts on extremism fear the threat of politically motivated violence will intensify. From "Pizzagate" to QAnon and "Stop the Steal," conspiracy theories that demonized Donald Trump's enemies are morphing and spreading as the front-runner for the 2024 Republican nomination aims for a return to the White House.
"No longer are these conspiracy theories and very divisive and vicious ideologies separated at the fringes," said Jacob Ware, a research fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations who focuses on domestic terrorism. "They're now infiltrating American society on a massive scale."
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Trump's loss to Democrat Joe Biden in the 2020 election did not end the spread of QAnon-influenced conspiracy theories or its unrealized prophecies. The leaderless movement's ever-changing ideology often adopts beliefs from other conspiracy theories.
"It's been really good at evolving with the times and current events," said Sheehan Kane, data collection manager for the University of Maryland-based Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, or START.
In a 2021 article, Kane and START senior researcher Michael Jensen examined QAnon-inspired crimes committed by 125 adherents since the conspiracy theory originated on the 4chan imageboard in 2017. They found that more "extremist offenders" were connected to QAnon than any other extremist group or movement in the United States.
"In 2020, millions of people were radicalized on behalf of this conspiracy theory," Kane said.
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“They’re now infiltrating American society on a massive scale.”
The TRUTH seems to work that way when it finally filters through! ;)
More projection from the left.
The illegal violence will come from the Left. As it always does.
“Conspiracy theories are alluring by design, driving some who are susceptible to them to completely immerse themselves, said Amarnath Amarasingam, an extremism researcher and professor at Queen’s University in Canada.
Repeatedly hearing that political opponents or government leaders are responsible for evil acts gives believers a scapegoat for their troubles and a ‘moral mission’ to do something about it, Amarasingam said.”
A SOCIALIST from Canada predicts violence for the American 2024 election. Hmmm...
With all the BS the left puts out you would think conservatives would melt or march on DC or burn down Chicago, but no. It is just these leftist snowflakes like this frigging gay prostitute old Paul was playing with.
Yes, and unfortunately for Marxists in the US, they are DOA when faced with 50% of the population under the 2A. If conservatives were as bad as Muslims in a given society, at 5% they would literally take over. The radicals have increased their numbers thru money and laws, but going against nature will not long last once a bankruptcy happens in the government’s pushing it, and the normies arise, sick and tired with no use for the kind of people who hate them.
I would not feed or assist a marxist or democrat during a period of starvation, or give lifesaving aid at an accident these days.
They should be worried if we REALLY get pissed.
And we know this Gay man living in the SF area who seemed to rent himself out for adult adventures was a hard core right winger? Really?
Staging false flags and J6’s might be the only thing they have left in their playbook.
Yup...it’s the Liberal plan to push violence, chaos, and mindless lawlessness to the ultimate and to make the public acceptance of THEIR solutions appear like the best way to resolve the discord
It irks me that this is SUCH a typically and frequently played totalitarian agenda throughout history and that Americans fail to grasp that this has never worked.
It’s obvious (except to the clinically moronic) that the DNC and other unprincipled criminals and social misfits in the US are themselves behind this entire wave of anarchistic pandemonium.
I am so disgusted that by now, my only regret is that I won’t be alive to enjoy the cold shower these young jerks will get when they see exactly how far they have been taken down the primrose path! It always reminds me of what the book makers used to say: “There are people who actually LOVE to be conned.”
The TRUTH seems to work that way when it finally filters through! ;)
But the opposite is also true.
REPEATING THE TRUTH CAN OVERCOME LIES.
But Folks, That is OUR job. If we stay silent, they win. Speak the truth and use your outdoor voice with people you meet.
“Liberal hopes for political violence are growing as the campaign heats up...”
Fixed.
Bingo
Still waiting to hear the authorities finally caught the suspect who executed black Trump supporter Bernell Trammell in broad daylight in the street in front of his sign shop
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