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He doesn’t recognize her at all. It’s not Mom. It can’t be. Technically, yes, that’s her voice. But…the words. They don’t sound like her thoughts at all. These are someone else’s words in her mouth. Her mind.
When Thanksgiving discourse shifted to immigration, who’s creeping into the country, didn’t his parents notice Kelsey sitting across the table? Who just passed the mashed potatoes? Didn’t they realize their granddaughter is half Haitian?
Mom said, no, no, she wasn’t talking about her daughter-in-law or granddaughter. She was talking about those other people.
Noah already tried dragging Mom and Dad back from the ideological brink of their batshit conspiracy-laden crackpottery.
Noah has felt so isolated from his family—his own mother—ever since she tumbled down the rabbit hole.
The Great Reawakening is nearly here.
The fam sees him off like this is some kind of quest. Save the parents! Vanquish the evil lurking in their hearts!
As much as Noah hates listening to Mom’s messages, it’s worse when they completely stop.
Fax News took Noah’s parents away. You know their stupid slogan: Just the Fax—cheekily misspelled in some outdated Reagan-era wisecrack. This right-wing propaganda machine masquerading as a twenty-four-hour news network had been reprogramming his parents for years. Years.
On their rare holiday father-son chat, Dad sounded like he was rehashing poorly written conspiracy theory fan fic.
It started off with small things. Tiny cracks in her civility. Nothing too noticeable. Definitely nothing worth pushing back on. But when they spoke on the phone, Noah began to detect buzzwords. Slogans. Batshit news headlines she must have picked up from Fax.
I just want my parents back, he thinks. Back to the way they were before all…this.
Listening to this shit gives Noah a headache. He can’t think straight. Just the way Fax likes it.
He’d laugh with half the country if his own mom and dad weren’t drinking the goddamn ultraconservative Kool-Aid.
It’s like some hostile hijacking of their personalities.
They are GOP pod people now. This is eons beyond just some silly ideological divide between generations. This isn’t about some goddamn election, who’s voting for who. It has everything to do with the news. Who exactly his parents are getting their fax—sorry, facts—from. Their channel of choice has changed them from the inside out.
“Today’s a special day for those who want to reclaim our country,”
