To keep up placated? By riling us up in the first place? If they knew they were going to steal the election (and we know it was stolen), why fill our heads with this horrible pedophile shit? Why give us every reason in the world to HATE them? None of us would have felt like we needed to take up arms right now if they hadn't filled our heads with that story. We'd be bummed our guy lost but not like this. The only reason I can fathom is to foment civil war. Because that feels like where we're going now. Did Trump fuck us? Was he one of them? Was he part of the plan somehow to push us into civil war?
I just can't fathom why Q would be anything other than what we thought it was. And if so...how can this be the end of the movie?
Erm, conspiracy answer: Now they have a new enemy, the domestic terrorists. Noone will question new security laws vs "qanons", noone will question censorship vs "qanons". To expand this idea: Some people will may now go violent and do stupid things, this will help label all Q followers (which in future will just be called qanons) as terrorists. Keep expanding this idea: Some of the bad stuff is probably true, but now it's linked to qanon and will never be trusted anymore. Any time something bad comes to light they can just say this is some crazy qanon stuff and it's discredited.