
Understanding NESARA/GESARA requires a trip through very strange conspiracy territory, and I’d leave it out because it’s too silly if it wasn’t becoming so popular among our nation’s dingbats.
Here goes: Back in the 1990s, Harvey Barnard (who was just some random guy, not an economist or government official) self-published a book where he laid out NESARA, a series of economic proposals designed to make the U.S. economy perfect (dumb crap like returning to a precious metal-backed currency, getting rid of income tax, abolishing compound interest, etc.) He sent the book to members of congress. They didn’t care. Readers didn’t either, so Barnard published his book on the internet. In 2005, he died—that’s where real life ends and the madness begins.
Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, a woman named Dove of Oneness spread the idea that NESARA was passed by congress in a secret session, and would be implemented soon—all debt would be abolished and peace would reign on Earth. Any day now. (I omitted a lot of stuff about aliens, 9/11, “ascended masters,” lizard people, etc., for space) GESARA is the same idea, but for the entire world!
Fast forward to QAnon. In the absence of regular posts from Q, QAnons have embraced a wide range of conspiracy theories, including NESARA/GESARA. Q-people and other kooks who believe in this particular flavor of crazy are (among other things) converting U.S. dollars into Iraqi dinars (a nearly worthless…