The 2021 storming of the United States Capitol continued the action of pro-Trump national collective of conspiracy theory, religio-political ideology driven individuals concerned with the current world order appealing to QAnon supporters, and concerns, imagination, and fears of the broader public. The epistemology of the QAnon membership requires to explore the truth and belief and the consequential knowledge informing the truth and reality paradigm of the insurrectionists.

It is in the words assigned to Aiden Wilson Tozer – American Christian pastor and authour – the natural individual requires knowledge in order to believe and the spiritual individual the belief in order to know, whereby assertions require knowledge that coheres and insights of the devoted mind to constitute assurance of participatory capabilities. Participatory capabilities are integral to the participation of members of the public within their national public life. The epistemic polarisations and conspiracies perplex the notions of knowledge and meaning of knowing cautioning of the tangibility and importance of grounds and the contrasting quicksand.

Politicisation and sweeping monetisation of knowledge production and transmission wrapped into the forms of the old and the new entrepreneurship relentlessly poses the need for agile awareness of fluctuating realities of public life participants. Proposed are regimes worthy of individuals’ support, questioned are the current state of affairs and political order’s worth to be supported, and alternatives are probed. Proposed to the fellow public life participants are partisan and non-partisan visions of the national public life. In some instances, resulting in partisan biases, motivated reasonings, and confirmation biases inviting to further participation along the proposed fault lines. Meaning, along the reality aligned to the proposed and partaken perceptual screen. Consequential political values and identity impact an extensive range of societal and existential interactions. On 6 January 2021 individuals woke up, got dressed, and headed to appear at the United States Capitol in appearance that concluded in the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol and following unprecedented federal arrests in connection to the acts at the United States Capitol Building on January 6th.

U.S. Capitol Violence – “The FBI is seeking the public’s assistance in identifying individuals who made unlawful entry into the U.S. Capitol building and committed various other alleged criminal violations, such as destruction of property, assaulting law enforcement personnel, targeting members of the media for assault, and other unlawful conduct, on January 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C.”: https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/capitol-violence

The further questions of the events and their analyses led to the uneasy discussions of domestic terrorism and terroristic notions as committed acts and ideological phenomena. Advanced by the concerns of the severing of democracy from the public life, misogyny, far-right, overt aggressive nationalism, alt-right, and white supremacy the correlating political and legal frameworks and approaches remain debated.