The “true believers” may be mentally ill
Okay, so we agree and the rest of the comment isn’t relevant, right? You are making assumptions that I don’t and ignoring things that I already explained. It’s all just talking past me as far as I can tell.
He was, under no fucking circumstances, even a “social democrat”
The main joke of the meme is that the bottom right corner does not remotely resemble the actual thing being discussed.
I mean, depending on the bounds of “mentally ill”, I think it’s sort of hard to argue the QAnon people were ever not overwhelmingly in that category. To believe ridiculous horseshit about ongoing material reality at a massive and thorough practical scale while being psychologically “normal,” you kind of need to be in an environment that normalizes such beliefs, and if you’re so isolated that 4chan or whatever esoteric Facebook or Twitter groups count as a primary enculturating environment, you are almost certainly not mentally healthy, whichever way the initial causal arrow went that put you in this situation. So basically that means structurally, the only group left where there’s a realistic possibility of not being mentally ill on that basis alone are the actual, literal in-person cults and other communities where it became the dominant belief, and you can imagine whether or not the people there are doing well.
So I think it was always basically ubiquitous among true believers.
A closer analogy might be to rich kids or something since the Kirk worship angle is notoriously a failure and the general public mocked it.