Why do faith healer charlatans succeed at making millions of dollars while their dupes, often the elderly, live near and below the poverty line? It’s about instilling a false hope, but also burying behind enough metaphysical and esoteric mumbo jumbo to make it so that the visions, prophecies and interpretations can allow the “true believers” into a special club where they can feel “superior” to those who don’t. How many people refuse to do what’s healthiest for them, like changing eating habits, exercising, and increasing vitamin intake, because some name-it-claim-it on TV said they could be totally healed with nothing more than cutting a check? The natural result of QTardism is one of two destinations. The first is continuing to believe in the faerie tales despite the whole house of cards completely cratering (and it has). You’re increasingly discredited and alienated by those around you as they see your faith as beyond insanity. The other is severe depression, demoralization, and demotivation as you realize the faith you’ve had for almost half a decade was in nothing. You begin to question your own judgment, the people you once trusted, or anybody else you might. This can be a positive if you can turn the corner and realize waiting for Superman is pointless, but can also lead to distancing from those in your life as the distrust calcifies. So, why a hoax? Why a psyop? What better way to destroy a foe than to give them false hope and then see that hope smashed on the rocks? They defeat themselves.