Young Americans Are Losing Their Minds. The Social Left Is To Blame.

This week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released new data showing that our nation’s young girls are in a state of absolute emotional and mental crisis. According to the CDC 57% of high school girls stated that they were depressed in 2021 compared to 36% for 2011. 30% also said they considered suicide, compared against 19% for 2011. High school boys also saw a significant increase in depressive symptoms: 29% reported feeling depressed, up from 21% in 2011. 14% of high-school boys considered suicide, compared to 13% ten years ago.

Naturally, our nation’s pseudoscientific experts blame societal intolerance and lack of sexual sensitivity. You should also consider the fact that more children than ever are identifying themselves as members of nonexistent identity group (Demisexual). Gender nonbinary!), mistakenly self-diagnosing with Tourette’s syndrome or gender dysphoria, and claiming victimhood at the hands of a cruel society – a society which rewards and cheers all such claims. Never mind that we’ve now undergone a gender revolution in which we’ve declared biological sex itself passe, treated heterosexual norms as taboo and misogynistic, and attempted to wipe away — along with actual sexual predation — much normal behavior in the name of #MeToo.

No, says the CDC, the problem — as always — is with society’s demands. According to The Wall Street Journal, the CDC recommends “teaching kids about sexual consent, managing emotions, and asking for what they need”; furthermore, “Schools should encourage gender and sexuality alliances, provide safe spaces and people for LGBTQ+ students to go to for support, and ensure enforcement of anti-harassment policies.”

Yes, the answer to five decades of social Leftism resulting in two generations unmoored from mental health is … more social Leftism!

Or, alternatively, any society that attempts to destroy all rules, roles, and intermediate institutions laden with traditional values will end up abandoning its children — all in the name of tolerance and diversity. We have robbed young men of a sense of meaning: we’ve told them that they need not be providers, protectors, or defenders, and that even aspiring to do so makes them bigoted remnants of the past. Instead, we tell young men that they should be relegated to the role “male feminists,” Condemning them “toxic masculinity” But they are reluctant to make the commitments that will turn boys into men.

We have robbed young women of any sense of place, time, or purpose: we’ve told them that they need not seek out a husband, aspire to bear and rear children, or make preparations to build a home. Instead, we’ve told them that they can run from their own biology, declaring themselves boys rather than girls, delaying childbearing indefinitely, pursuing the things that are supposedly truly important: sexual license, more work hours, sipping wine at brunch with single friends.

Because children don’t belong at the top in our civilizational hierarchy, the interests of adults do. In the West, more adults see children as a burden that they avoid or as validations of their sense of self-identity. They need to be indoctrinated into liberaler forms of social organization.

Now, the price is being paid by children.

Since decades, the social Left controls virtually all aspects of culture policy. To alleviate the effects of the chaos they created, they now want more control. The correct answer is, in fact, exactly the opposite. This requires the reinvigoration, re-inculcation, and reinforcement of traditional wisdom and values. Our society must quickly reverse the trend or we will have devastating consequences for our youth.

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