The article reflects on the author's family's experience with Amway, revealing how it consumed their lives for decades. Starting in 1978, the mother’s involvement transformed their household into a microcosm of American political and social ideologies, intertwining with conspiratorial thinking and anti-public education sentiment. The author observes a loss of their mother to the business, as its cultural implications shaped their life and mirrored larger trends in American society, prefiguring the populism prominent in contemporary politics.
Amway would become the load-bearing beam of my mother's existence for the next four decades.
Amway adherents embraced a fusion of conspiratorial thinking and populism that would remain a central thread of America's political story.
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