Is AUTHOR wrong in the post ? POST : Posted on a throwaway. This post isn't meant to bash anyone with conservative views, or anyone that likes conspiracy theories! Sorry if it comes off that way. Thank you for understanding!

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My family's pretty varied in terms of political views. My dad and brother are mainstream libs, My mom is an independent, and I'm an ecosocialist. My parents used to have very similar political views, but over the past several years my dad, brother and I have noticed her starting to veer right. This began with her getting really into New Age stuff, which led to conspiracy theories, and eventually, right-wing news and YouTube channels and all that. Consequently, we tend to butt heads a lot.

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This has started to annoy my brother and SO. My brother says he's tired of our conversations devolving into hour-long debates, and my SO sees how emotional I get during these conversations and is worried about both my mental health and my relationship with my mom. There's honestly no harm done on that end. Our relationship hasn't been damaged at all, and my mom thankfully views it as something important to engage in. She says it prevents either of us from getting too extreme, "steel sharpens steel", etc. Which I'm inclined to agree with. Still, I've been trying not to bring up political topics in front of her when there's other people around. There's no reason other people should have to suffer our conversations, haha. But when she says something out of place, I feel like I just have to say something.

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Honestly, I don't trust the sites she's on. They're all far right fringe sites. She claims she checks out sites "on both sides" to get a more objective view of things, but most of them don't fact check, and she believes them without doing any more research. It's gotten to the point that she believes in QAnon, Pizzagate, and other things like that, and it kind of scares me. She also believes in much weirder stuff- Queen of England is a lizard person, aliens built the pyramids, etc.

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I don't even like engaging in these debates half the time, but I'm scared that if I don't make a point of rebutting her viewpoints and fact-checking these statements for her, she'll continue down that path and get even more unhinged from reality. A lot of the sources she refers to are known for being alt-right gateways, and I'm scared of her beginning to unknowingly espouse anti-semitic, islamophobic, or downright racist views- Holocaust denial level shit.

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**TL;DR:** Is it fair to subject others to our conversations, even if it makes them uncomfortable, for the sake of trying to help my mom keep an even point of view? Is it even my place to do that? Am I over-reacting/being a dick or am I justified? Is there a better way of going about this? Everyone feels like they can't talk about politics with either of us in the room, which isn't good at all. But I'm worried about what will happen if I stop.