QAnon Takeover Runs DEEP In Alarming Armed Forces Reveal

New RAND Corporation report reveals an alarming number of veterans, from marines to the army, hold strong beliefs in QAnon conspiracies, the great replacement theory and the potential need for violence in an uprising. John Iadarola and Brett Erlich break it down on The Damage Report.

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40 percent of Marine veterans believe in white nationalist 'Great Replacement Theory,' 27 percent believe U.S. may need political violence

"A new RAND Corporation report is as alarming as it is relieving. Sampling 1,000 randomly selected veterans, the study found that a whopping 39.4 percent of U.S. Marine Corps vets surveyed expressed support in the white nationalist Great Replacement Theory that a group in America is trying to replace native-born Americans with immigrants who support that group's political views.

Before drilling deeper into the data, let's look at the overall results of the study. There is some good news here as RAND found that veterans are not more prone to extremism than the general population of America. Questions were asked about specific extremist groups – Antifa, the Proud Boys, Black nationalists, and white supremacists – finding that veterans are if anything somewhat less likely to support these groups than non-veterans.

However, after taking a deeper dive into the data, there are some alarming facts. In order to add context, first it is important to look at the backgrounds of the 1,000 veterans surveyed. The sample skews white (72 percent), old (49.6 percent over the age of 65 and 20.6 percent aged 55-64), and male (89.7 percent). In other words, the veterans surveyed are majority baby boomers."

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