In Praise of QAnon

Sometimes the paranoids are right and sometimes they're wrong but necessary! Listened to a bit of interview with Lee Harris, author of a number of books on American history, by Lee Smith.  Excerpt: 

Harris:  “...My book addressed the question was why some societies value liberty and are notable for their history of freedom.  In pursuing that theme I researched the English Civil War, the Peasants Revolt of 1381, etc....What I began noticing is that the citizens for liberty were often not exactly law-abiding citizens. They were often violently rebellious, often times paranoid. They sometimes had paranoid fantasies about the threats upon them.  In the American Revolution, the opening of the Declaration of Independence is well-known but few people get to the passages in which George III is referred to as a ‘tyrant trying to enslave Americans’. Which is pretty extreme. It occurred to me that maybe the price of having a free society is having a bunch of people who are ornery, who are unwilling to take authority, unwilling to abide by the words of their betters, perhaps this is a necessary agreement in free societies -- as opposed to people who believe you write this document the Constitution and append a Bill of Rights and then everything takes care of itself.  I’ve come to the conclusion this was false. But Stalin wrote a fine constitution with much more rights given than we have.

I differ emphatically from the school of Straussians who put a lot of importance on documents, to sacred political documents. And I tend to find the bedrock of freedom is the interior, gut feelings of ordinary people.”