Charles Bastille
1 min readMay 29, 2021

--

If they want to give it a proper name, I'd like to make an outside contribution: The Contract Against America.

It is more fitting for a mobster like Trump.

I sometimes softly chide you for your concern over Trump (but of course I always enjoy reading your anti-Trump missives), but maybe I need to stop that given this:

"About 1 in 4 respondents from those religious groups said they believed that "the government, media, and financial worlds in the U.S. are controlled by a group of Satan-worshipping pedophiles who run a global child sex trafficking operation," a statement associated with the false QAnon conspiracy theory."

The pollsters also suggest that QAnon would qualify as a major U.S. religion if it were categorized this way.

This is a real threat to our admittedly imperfect experiment with democracy. And it all started, really, with Trump's claims about Obama's birth.

So keep 'em coming. We've got a problem here, folks, and not even Trump's upcoming imprisonment (hey, a guy can hope, right?) is likely to change that soon.

The most recent Republican admission that they are against democracy proves it.

EDIT: Link for poll:

https://www.npr.org/2021/05/27/1000865185/how-religion-education-race-and-media-consumption-shape-conspiracy-theory-belief

--

--

Charles Bastille
Charles Bastille

Written by Charles Bastille

Author of MagicLand & Psalm of Vampires. Join me on my Substack at https://www.ruminato.com/. All stories © 2020-24 by Charles Bastille

Responses (1)