What are your thoughts on the QAnon conspiracy that the EverGiven container ship was filled with human trafficked children for Hillary Clinton?

Rush Limbaugh used to brag he was doing the prep work for Main Stream Media. Well, the reality is that QAnon is writing the lede for Tucker Carlson.

COMMENTARY:

My thoughts on all things associated with the Capitol Riots as beginning with William F. Buckley, as an ardent supporter of Senator Joe MCCarthy. Buckley’s entire political career was devoted to creating a political culture wheere a demagogue like Joe McCarthy could be elected President and implement his Free Market fantasies of a white supremacist paradise and he got a toofer: Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump, if you leave out Richard “Dick” Cheney, America’s favorite war criminal and his Special Presidential Assistant, Yale’s Favorite male cheer leader, Popsy’s bad bo, W.

Buckley was in the business of generating moral confusion in the debate around the critical path of the constitutional processes of the nation He started at Yale with his white spremacist notions of the gated communities he was raised in, around his Sharon estate. Strictkly speaking, Gore Vidal hit it right on the head when he called Buckley a “crypto-Nazi” on ABC during the 1968 Democrat Convention. It’s a perfect call, with the subtext of a barely closeted homoerotic system of manners. Buckley had been holding seminars on Fascist sophistry with his Firing Line show and people who thoungt like him and G. Gordon Liddy were absolutely committed to providing Dan Bongino an opportunity to seize and hold the Capitol for the 2nd Presidential Inauguration of Donald J. Trump.

QAnon is a synergy from both Buckley’s Sharon manifesto for what became Movement Conservatives when Reagan was elected and the political strategy Newt Gingrich is employing to keep the House Freedom Caucus in office and restore a Republican majority so Moscow Mitch and McCarthy can double down on the Georgia Jim Crow Laws. Woodrow Wilson brought to the White House along with Birth of a Nation. Before the internet,, something like QAnon would bubble up, heare and there and become something of an ideological fad, like Ayn Rand’s philosophy of objectivism. I hate to call it a “philosophy”. It is a study in systematic Fascism and she employs a similar sophistry as Buckley to support her particular version of Free Market economics. Objectivism is a system of thought based on a sort of collage of sound bites arranged in a pattern pleasing to Rand’s narcissism., an ideology of egoism. If you can understand the structural fallacy of Rand, you will recognize the total pixie dust of Rand Paul’s Libertarianism.

Until he became President, Thomas Jefferson was a political dilletante like Buckley and a Libertarian, like Jesse Helms. When he became President, he transformed into a republican servant leader on Washington’s example and kicked the can of slavery down the road to Lincoln, who was America’s first process theology presidential guru. What Lincoln had in common with Eisenhower was his commitment to completing the transcontinental railroad. If he had lived, Reconstruction would have included a heavy emphasis on expanding the railway system in the South like Eisenhower and the interstates. And Jefferson;s real estate deal with France made that possible. And Lewis and Clark made it practical.

Unlike process theology, Libertarianism is not dynamical, but a process of arranging ideas to justify absurd behavior as self-evident. The absurd behavior is a result of the ideological restraints of any static construct, such as Marxism or the logic behind Citizens United Or the War on Drugs. QAnon is just sort of the essence of the quality of the fallacy sustaining the War on Drugs and mostly racist in its conception.

Libertarian apologetics depends a great deal, if not entirely, on a misappreshension of Hume’s theory of perception, which is the substitute for epistemology in Fascist social systems. Hume posited a theory of evidence based on the existential nature of evidence, in and of itself that is vital to the scientific method and equitable jurisprudence. There is no cause and effect and his thesis is that our personal version of reality is determined exclusively by sensory data. As a frorensic device, his theory of perception is very reliable but you can’t hit a sinking curve ball with forensic data. Libertarians who employ Buckley’s Fascist sophistry to, say, argue with Dr. Fauci about defeating Covid-19, lose sight of that reality when they enter the market place of ideas to do battle. Their theory is that, if you can control the narrative, you can control the perception and, consequently, with metaphysical necessity, control reality.

For example, if you don’t test and you continue to say everything is under control and manage to conceal the sudden rise in flu mortality and hospital stresses, you can expect another four years of golf. The reality of Covid-19 as an existential threat doesn’t change, but if you reframe it and if you really, really, really believe it’s true, who’s to say you are lying?

And that’s where QAnon is coming from: people like William F. Buckley, Rush Limbaugh and Tucker Carlson provide a moral fog in the collective unconscious that allows toxic synergies like QAnon to hide among the Pro-Life heresies of the Evangelical community and the authoritarian vibes of the Federalist Society and the peer-reviewed Movement Conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation, Cato Institute, AEI and GOPAC and anywhere G. Gordon Liddy and Dan Bongino are welcomed speakers.

William F. Buckley created an incubator for nurturing white supremacist agendas that shared the same authoritarian values as Trump, including the Virtue of Selfishness. Libertarians have an huge. largely immature, emotional stake in the core fallacy of their personal values, such as displayed by Rand Paul v Dr. Fauci.

This emotional connection is reflected in the MAGA nation and die-hard Trump voter. they literally love Trump the way Germans loved Hitler.

Like Newt Gingrich says, ideas are important. But ideas are a dime a dozen and they need to be tested for existential reliability. David Hume’s theory of perception and the Fascist sophisty of William F. Buckley’s white supremacist Libertarianism ignore those tests. And, as a consequence. synergies like QAnon find an enabling culture to become viral.

A good way to test whether your own value system has become distorted by the disinformation associated with William F. Buckley is if you agree with the conventional wisdom that Hillary Clinton was a terrible candidate in 2016. I would propose that your judgement in this regards was distorted by 27 years of negative advertising from Movement Conservatives like Rick Wilson and Rush Limbaugh. Given the historical context, perfect 20/20 hindsight should reveal to your satisfaction that Clinton was the only serious candidate to run in 2016. It just turned out 45% of the voters wanted a WWE cage match promoter to make fun of serious politics and responsible voters, who happened to also believe that a WWE cage match promoter was a superior candidate to run America.

As they say, between the Idea and the Reality, falls the Shadow. With the Shadow of 26 years of misinformation removed from your Idea of Clinton as a candidate, what is the Reality that remains? The difference between your Idea of Clinton and the reality of Clinton is how QAnon has come tippy-toeing into the bank benches of the political arena. I blame it on the Oliver Stone version of Vietnam