Pizzagate belief is passed down to children as righteous family mission

Evidence

I had all this in mind during one of the saddest moments of the DC rally, when I spotted a child holding a sign: IF YOU SEE ME WITH JOHN PODESTA, CALL THE POLICE. The little boy carrying the placard was beaming, bouncing up and down on his heels. … I walked over. The man was Michael White from Pennsylvania; he retired from the Air Force after a workplace injury on a base in Kosovo. … “I want to stop child murder once and for all,” he said, carefully. — Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies, 281

Categorization

• XREF: Conspiracy belief as intergenerational family identity resonates with vault material on how group identities and authoritarian family structures transmit beliefs. — connects to: Pizzagate believers decoded innocent words as sexual-abuse code. — Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies, 216; Children have not independently formed their parents’ religious convictions. — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 9369; Children adopt beliefs backed by adults’ credible displays of devotion.

Broader Connections

• Children have not independently formed their parents’ religious convictions. #corroborates (0.75) — , The Rod and the Child, 9369
• Children adopt beliefs backed by adults’ credible displays of devotion. #corroborates (0.72)