When You Find Out Your Dad is A QAnon Influencer

David is a US Marine. He's just 23 and seen things you and I can only imagine. He's been deployed to the far corners of the earth and endured traumas that will affect him for the rest of his life. But none of it compares to when he came home and realized that his parents, who were his best friends, were deep down the QAnon rabbit hole. Even worse, David learned his father is a QAnon influencer with tens of thousands of followers across right-wing social media.

When David told his parents about the trauma he endured during one of his deployments, they refused to acknowledge the deployment was even real, in essence accusing David himself of being a part of the conspiracy.

My heart broke for David as I chatted with him. He's a thoughtful, compassionate and intelligent man who is going to do wonderful things with his life with or without his parents support, but it breaks my heart to listen to how his parents have been treating him.

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