Hoodwinked by QAnon?

Let’s twalk…

Did you believe all, most or some of the QAnon schtick? Until you didn’t?

Welcome to the club.

I don’t mean the ex-QAnon club. I’m talking about a club much, much bigger than Q. I call it the Hoodwinked club, or H for short.

To hoodwink is to “conceal one’s true motives — especially by elaborately feigning good intentions — so as to gain an end.”

To be hoodwinked is to be had. Bamboozled. Scammed, one way or another. To have the wool pulled over our eyes. To be led by the nose, to a slaughter of the mind.

I’m an H too.

If you think you had it bad, being swept into Q zone for a few years or months, consider this: I spent 18 years tangled up with a teacher who spun stories like Q’s. My daughter was 6 months old when I started bi-weekly sessions with him. He slowly eroded my mind while I poured money into his pocket. Of course, there are many differences between my experience and yours, but I’m pretty sure there are key patterns that are very, very similar.

These patterns were analyzed in the 1950’s by an astute researcher and psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton who studied Communist China and Korean prisoners of war. (If you haven’t read his most recent book Losing Reality, I highly recommend it.) Lifton’s seminal…