Hi guys I just need to vent. I’m 21F in college living at home with both of my parents who have always been conservative. My mom was an army brat growing up but has never been super into politics. Although my mom voted for Trump twice and is a republican, she’s the sweetest lady you will ever meet. She’s always been my best friend.

Anyways— In 2020 when Covid started, my mom became a huge conspiracy theorist. I didn’t think much of it at the time. She was just claiming that Covid was made in a lab and that they’re all lying about the numbers. She started watching FOX news every single night. My dad somewhat believes this stuff but not nearly to the extent that my mom does.

After the election when it was announced that Biden won, my mom dove deep into the Q rabbit hole. She started talking about the Insurrection Act and how trump was gonna use military to ‘take out the bad guys’. She started to stock up on food and was buying generators and lots of batteries. This went on from November all the way til Jan 20. She claims the pope has been arrested and that all these countries are having blackouts bc our military is in charge. She now believes our country is run by pedophiles and satanists. It really started to freak my dad and i out.

She basically would talk about this stuff every single day up until Jan 20. She was so upset when Biden was inaugurated and trump didn’t show up with his military to take Biden out. But now she believes that on March 4th Trump will be inaugurated. I keep trying to tell my mom how stupid it is that the Q community finds a new date to obsess over and push the goalposts back. She won’t let up. All she does all day is go on her phone and watch these videos with headphones in. She barely interacts with us. I feel like she’s not even the same person.

My mom isn’t normally a fearful person. She was always an optimist growing up, and never let the little things get her down. She has a college degree and is a structural engineer. It makes me sad that someone so smart and educated believes political fan-fiction and things people write on forums. I’ve tried so hard to debate her, try and rationalize her, or get her to see that this is all nonsense but she won’t. Even my dad, who is also a trump supporter, admitted defeat that trump lost and that she needs to stop.

She’s completely brainwashed and there’s nothing I can do. I’ve tried everything. Of course I still love her unconditionally. She’s not a hateful person or violent person. She’s still a sweet person and has good intentions. I think that she was in a vulnerable state and Q took advantage of her when she was down. My mom is also super religious so I feel like that also has something to do with it. I’ve noticed a lot of similarities with Christianity and Q. All Q supporters believe that Q is like the messiah and will come to save them all and that ‘the storm’ is judgement day.

I just had to vent. I know a lot of us are in situations like these where a loved one has been brainwashed by Q. It makes me really sad. I just hope one day she will wake up and see that this was all a waste of time. In the meantime, there’s nothing I can do. I can’t control what she does or what she believes. All I can do is love her unconditionally. She’s still my mom at the end of the day. I just wish I had my old mom back.

EDIT: forgot to mention that she believes that JFK Jr is still alive, that Mike Pompeo will be VP, and that Q is AI from the future. 😐