'I Miss My Mom': Children Of QAnon Believers Are Desperately Trying To Deradicalize Their Own Parent

[Nevilledog]

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Jesselyn Cook
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NEW: I talked to nine children of QAnon believers, who described to me the heartbreaking process of trying to deradicalize your own mom & dad.

"I don't know what to do,” one teen said. “I feel like I've lost my parents.”

‘I Miss My Mom’: Children Of QAnon Believers Are Desperately Trying To Deradicalize Their Own...
Here’s what it’s like to lose the person who raised you to a far-right cult.
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7:30 AM · Feb 11, 2021

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/children-of-qanon-believers_n_601078e9c5b6c5586aa49077

[hauckeye]

1. That is just so heartbreaking

[Johnny2X2X]

2. HBO's True Detective

It's been written about, but Q Anon took specifics of their Pedophile Ring fantasy from HBO's True Detective series. Including symbols from the show, and the general story of an elite global group into politics while running a child sex trafficking ring. Maybe pointing to this show can reach some people, "You basically believe that a fiction series on HBO is real life."

[Thomas Hurt]

3. RWNJs live in their fascist fantasy world where life is war, they are heroes...

there is a great enemy, you can always tell who the bad guy is, etc.

the lot of them think they are just like John MClane or a special operations dude if only given the chance to prove.

Bunch of them thought they got their chance on the 6th.

[Johnny2X2X]

5. 40 years of insane gun culture too

The NRA and surrogates have preached non stop for decades that it was their duty to kill our elected leaders if the time came, they live in this fantasyland that their guns are for killing their leaders.

The also believe that if a foreign military defeats the US Marines, the US Navy, the US Air Force, the US Army, the US Coastguard, the FBI, and all state and local law enforcement agencies, that they and their buddies are going to defend their towns from such a force with their AR-15s. They're crazy.

[abqtommy]

4. Well kids, we can think of this Second Impeachment as one big intervention! And we can

keep that up using different approaches, too...

[mainer]

6. As wrenching as it is, sometimes you have to walk away

and leave your parents to stew in their own insanity.