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Cont: Qanon Conspiracy Theories Part Two

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I think of it as the naturalnews.com crowd. The kind that started out railing against Monsanto and rainwater collection policy, with a helping of chemtrail woos, and ultimately became hijacked into an extreme right wing faction, leaning hard into Birther nonsense and adopting pretty much any anti-government conspiracy that came along. Except when Republicans controlled the presidency, Senate, and Supreme Court--then the government was still the enemy, but somehow the Democrats were controlling everything anyway and were still the ones that needed to be opposed.
 
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SuburbanTurkey said:
It's no surprise that Qanon caught on with MAGA CHUDs.

What is a little more interesting is the seeming appeal to California crunchy types, like yoga, wellness, and alternative health influencers that might normally be thought of being more likely to be politically liberal.
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That's because yoga, wellness, and alternative medicine have always been, at their core, "woo". Their common ideological thread is a distrust and dismissal of science, evidence, and modern medicine, not any sort of social politics.
 
Checkmite said:
That's because yoga, wellness, and alternative medicine have always been, at their core, "woo". Their common ideological thread is a distrust and dismissal of science, evidence, and modern medicine, not any sort of social politics.
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Mostly agree.

Wellness started out as a good thing. Who would disagree that the wellness of your fellow human is or is not a good thing? Then the woo crowd jacked it and folded it into the "spiritual" nonsense. The definition of "wellness" at this point is useless. Balancing your chakras is now part of "wellness". Those do not exist. The people promoting it know it is not real. But they have glommed onto the term as though it means something. It doesn't.
 
Checkmite said:
That's because yoga, wellness, and alternative medicine have always been, at their core, "woo". Their common ideological thread is a distrust and dismissal of science, evidence, and modern medicine, not any sort of social politics.
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I was under the impression that yoga was much more about stretching, basic muscle maintenance, and pointed mental relaxation, personally. But then, I will admit that I haven't looked into any sometime attached beliefs to it.
 
Aridas said:
I was under the impression that yoga was much more about stretching, basic muscle maintenance, and pointed mental relaxation, personally. But then, I will admit that I haven't looked into any sometime attached beliefs to it.
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That's Hatha Yoga, if you stick with that you can avoid most of the woo.
 
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