re: #270 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Courtney Heard (Godless Mom), an atheist counter-apologist who lives in British Columbia, went on a podcast to explain how she lost both her parents to Qanon.

Both of her parents are atheists, socially-liberal, and college-educated. Lack-of-religion or higher education are insufficient to resist propaganda. Her mother was a teacher and her father a social worker.

(32:47)

Ms. Heard has now cut her family out of her life and keeps her children away from them.

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It has long been my contention (well before Trump reared his ugly head on our political stage) that anyone can be brainwashed, that we are all susceptible to propaganda. We are no different from those who burned witches at the stake because of accusations against them. Obviously we are not all susceptible to the same type of stories or accusations, but we can all succumb to the right type of story, or we can refuse to believe true stories because they go against our pre-existing perspective of the world. After all, how many in the 20th century refused to believe that a highly educated cultured society like Germany would descend into total evil and madness?