This is the Tom Hartman program.

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So help me out here.

I'm seeing at least three groups of people who hate democracy, just generally anywhere

in the world hate democracy.

And it appears to me that they are using this new, let's call it a secular religion,

or even a pseudo-religion of QAnon as one of the ways, one of multiple ways, to accomplish

their goal of knee-capping democracy in the United States.

Because if you can take down democracy in the United States, you can take it down anywhere

in the world.

This is, you know, I wrote about this this morning on HartmanReport.com.

The headline is, could QAnon's reign mean the end times for democracy?

And these three groups that I'm seeing, well actually let me back up a little bit, Voltaire

famously said, those who can make you believe absurdities can cause you to commit atrocities.

I'm paraphrasing from memory, but essentially, and he was talking about religion, specifically

about religion.

Like, you know, I've got the whole rest of his quote, you know, buried here in my article.

Here, he says, if the God-given understanding of your mind did not resist a demand to believe

what is impossible, then you will not resist a demand to do wrong to that God-given sense

of justice in your heart.

As soon as one faculty of your soul has been dominated, other faculties will follow as

well.

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