Do You Have Secret Doubts About QAnon?

There’s nothing wrong with you. You’re allowed to come home.

Catherine Jones Payne
Politically Speaking
2 min readNov 18, 2020

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Hey friend,

Is there some small part of you, in the most secret part of your heart, that’s starting to doubt that Q is who he says he is? That the stories you’ve been hearing about the elite cabal and their satanic rituals are really true?

It’s okay. You don’t have to say it out loud. Not until you’re ready.

Did you feel abandoned when Q vanished after the election? Now he’s back, saying it had to be this way. (Why does it always have to be this way?) Will it “have to be this way” again if Biden is inaugurated in January? Will there be more clarifications, more excuses?

It’s okay to doubt.

You have always prized thinking for yourself. You’re not stupid. My late father believed a lot of stuff just like this, and he was one of the smartest people I knew. He understood physics and philosophy intuitively, effortlessly. He taught himself how to code. He was kind and funny, self-made and self-taught. And he drew patterns to fill in the gaps where he thought the world didn’t make sense. He didn’t trust the mainstream media or the government, so he turned to different media, media he thought would tell the truth.

But instead, they told him the world was radically different than it seemed, that he couldn’t trust his own eyes or ears, that he couldn’t trust the testimony of people around him. They were very good at what they did, creating the contours of a new worldview designed to worm its way into a person’s brain and stay there. They told him he had to worry that the NSA had bugged our walls. They fed him fear and anger, and they made money doing it, through book sales and magazine subscriptions and the ad revenue of click after click after click.

Sometimes he talked to the NSA in the walls.

Close your eyes, and picture a warm, vivid memory from before Q. Maybe a childhood Christmas or the birth of your firstborn or a kiss that made your head spin or the first time you watched your favorite movie or a vacation to the most beautiful place you’ve ever seen. Soak in that feeling.

Is your life better now than it was back then? Are you happier? Freer? Closer with your loved ones?

Do you want to come home?

Maybe you’re not ready yet. But think about it.

You’re allowed to come home.

Love, Catherine

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Catherine Jones Payne
Politically Speaking

Writer and editor. Probably never grew out of being a debate kid. Wants to see evidence.