Critical Perspectives and Reflections

                                                                          BILL LEE February 12, 2021 The phenomenon of QAnon has come to dominate so much of the political and social world (particularly the social media world) in the USA over the last four years (and has crept into some parts of the Canadian right-wing scene). It is almost a daily item in USA News. Though it is ubiquitous in general, I find however that it is a downright puzzle to me. The thing itself has put out a wide range of strange and weird ideas, most relate to a series of fact-less, odd and even bizarre notions. Some have become well known and relate to conspiracy theories like the one suggesting that there is a cabal of Democratic Party luminaries, like Hilary Clinton, joining with celebrities to form a top-secret club of “elites ...

GEORGE FROEHLICH February 9, 2021 Marjorie Taylor Greene is as vile and evil as it gets. This Republican first-time member of the US. House of Representatives is a conspiracy spewer whose beliefs are not limited to the QAnon gang. She wanted Democrats to be executed, particularly Nancy Pelosi. She believed and still believes that many mass school shootings and killings were staged by actors and actually made a video of herself harassing one of the student survivors of the mass shooting Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, the well known, Michael Hogg. She got elected in her constituency not in spite of the nonsense but because of it. She is a new breed politician - intent on destroying the very democracy that allows her to flourish and peddle lies over and over again. There is more - but you get the picture. So, let’s cut to the chase - the Democrats voted to remove her from three committees she sat on, one of which was Education, because most of her Republican co...