Let’s start here: loving people and enabling their delusions are not the same thing.
But try telling that to the modern Left — a political machine that has mastered the art of exploiting the hurting, the confused, and the mentally unstable in the name of “progress.” Whether it’s TikTok therapists promoting gender confusion, drag queens in first-grade classrooms, or violent radicals lighting up city streets in the name of “justice,” we have to ask: how did we get here?
Here’s the short version: decades of strategic manipulation via the media, academia, and public education. The long version? Keep reading.
This post dives into the how and why — and offers biblical truth and practical clarity for those of us who still believe sanity is not hate speech.
Indoctrination 101: Mental Fragility as a Feature, Not a Flaw
It didn’t start with TikTok. It started in the classroom.
In the early 20th century, Antonio Gramsci, an Italian Marxist, proposed that cultural institutions (schools, churches, media) needed to be infiltrated to achieve a communist revolution. He called it the “long march through the institutions.” His goal? Dismantle the moral and psychological foundations of the West — Christianity, family, reason — and replace them with ideology, identity worship, and chaos.
Fast forward: that strategy worked.
By the 1960s and 70s, American universities had become breeding grounds for Marxist professors like Herbert Marcuse, who popularized “repressive tolerance” — the idea that free speech should be suppressed if it opposes Leftist values. Today, this ideology has morphed into cancel culture, safe spaces, and trigger warnings.
And the targets? Students. Young, often emotionally fragile, desperate for belonging — the perfect demographic to manipulate.
Source:
Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks (1929–1935)
Marcuse, Repressive Tolerance (1965)
The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt (2018)
Media as a Mind Control Machine
If public schools crack the door open, the media blows it off the hinges.
Hollywood and mainstream news outlets have spent decades glorifying dysfunction and packaging it as authenticity. Whether it’s the celebration of gender dysphoria as “bravery,” or the lionization of convicted criminals as civil rights heroes, the mentally unstable are being used as cultural battering rams.
Let’s look at a few examples:
Dylan Mulvaney — a grown man roleplaying girlhood, paraded by brands like Bud Light and Ulta Beauty as a poster child for “inclusion.”
“Peaceful protesters” with Molotov cocktails — praised by MSNBC as “mostly peaceful” while cities burned.
Drag queens with visible psychosexual issues reading to toddlers in libraries, defended by CNN as “community engagement.”
These aren’t anomalies — they’re patterns. When you create a world where up is down, and truth is offensive, the mentally unwell are no longer the vulnerable. They’re the vanguard.
Source:
Coverage of Dylan Mulvaney by NBC News (2023)
CNN: “Drag queens bring joy to children” (2019)
MSNBC coverage of 2020 BLM riots
Emotional Weakness = Political Power
Why does the Left keep elevating emotionally unstable figureheads?
Because feelings are easier to manipulate than facts.
A mentally sound, spiritually grounded person might ask uncomfortable questions like:
“What are the long-term effects of puberty blockers?”
“Is this policy actually helping communities or just virtue signaling?”
“Why are we treating mental illness as an identity?”
But someone trained to interpret the world through feelings will respond with:
“That’s transphobic!”
“You don’t understand my truth!”
“If you don’t affirm me, you’re erasing me!”
And boom — discussion over. Dissent = hate.
The weaponization of fragility works because it forces society to walk on eggshells. It silences opposition by wrapping ideology in a sob story. This isn’t empathy. It’s emotional blackmail.
Source:
Cynical Theories by Helen Pluckrose & James Lindsay
APA reports on the rise of mental illness in Gen Z (2021–2024)
Pew Research: Democrats are more likely than Republicans to report mental health issues (2020)
Mental Illness as Identity: A Cultural Shift with Dangerous Roots
Here’s a disturbing truth: being “mentally ill” is now a social currency.
Online platforms like TikTok and Tumblr reward self-diagnoses with attention and affirmation. Young people aren’t just struggling with depression or anxiety — they’re branding themselves with it.
There are teenagers who believe they’re neurodivergent queer polyamorous catkin systems… and they’re not being told to seek help — they’re being validated by adults in power.
The Left doesn’t just allow this — they fund it. Schools now have “gender closets.” Therapists push ideology over science. And the Biden administration labels concerned parents as domestic threats.
This is not kindness. It’s exploitation.
Source:
TikTok mental health self-diagnosis trend report, New York Post (2022)
“Gender closets in schools” – The Federalist (2023)
DOJ’s memo on parents as potential domestic extremists (2021)
What Can We Do?
1. Reclaim our Kids — Spiritually and Mentally.
Teach your kids who they are before the world tells them who they’re not. Identity rooted in Christ leaves no room for confusion.
“God is not the author of confusion but of peace.” — 1 Corinthians 14:33 (ESV)
2. Push Back on Emotional Tyranny.
Compassion doesn’t mean caving to lies. Speak truth — firmly but lovingly. Don’t let fear of offense become fear of obedience.
3. Vote Locally, Speak Publicly.
Get involved in school boards. Demand transparency. Challenge curriculum. Support platforms and politicians who will fight for truth over delusion.
4. Support the Mentally Unwell — Don’t Exploit Them.
The Church must become a place of truth and healing, not silent complicity. Jesus loved the hurting — but He didn’t leave them in their dysfunction.
Conclusion:
We are witnessing the fallout of a society that stopped treating mental illness and started celebrating it. The result? A generation too broken to think clearly — and too manipulated to see they’ve become pawns.
But there’s hope. Always.
Because no matter how dark the culture gets, truth doesn’t stop being true.
Let’s be the ones who speak it — not with cruelty, but with conviction.
Let’s help the hurting — not use them.
Let’s fight for sanity — not surrender to insanity.
And let’s remember: in a world that tells us love is affirmation, real love tells the truth.
“You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” — John 8:32 (NKJV)
