Have you ever had that uneasy feeling that something is deeply wrong with the direction of the country, but you can’t quite put your finger on it?
I felt it the first time I walked into my niece’s elementary school and saw posters declaring “Silence is Violence” next to cartoon characters talking about systemic oppression. She was seven. Seven.
Turns out my gut wasn’t playing tricks on me. A powerful new documentary is making the case that the ideology responsible for more deaths than any other in human history didn’t disappear—it just learned to smile, wear rainbow pins, and call itself “social justice.”
The Wolf That Learned to Bleat
History books used to be blunt: communism killed around 150 million people in the last century alone. Most of us grew up believing that nightmare ended when the Soviet flag came down in 1991.
But ideologies don’t die from embarrassment. They adapt.
What we’re seeing now isn’t tanks rolling down Main Street. It’s something far more insidious: the same revolutionary impulse wrapped in the language of compassion, therapy, and inclusion. The sheep’s clothing is so convincing that millions of well-meaning people are cheering for their own eventual enslavement without realizing it.
They’re Not Hiding the Playbook Anymore
One of the most chilling moments in the film comes when a prominent critic of critical race theory explains the real goal:
“This isn’t an economic theory anymore. It never really was. It’s a totalizing worldview—a secular religion—that demands you remake yourself and everyone around you into something new.”
He’s not exaggerating. When you look at the pattern across decades, the strategy becomes crystal clear:
- First, convince people that every traditional institution is hopelessly corrupted by power
- Second, position yourself as the only moral solution to that corruption
- Third, demand total conformity in the name of liberation
Sound familiar? It should. We’re living through step three right now.
The Classroom Is Now the Front Line
Forget dusty manifestos in university libraries. Today’s revolution is happening in kindergarten circle time.
Kids are being taught—explicitly—that the framework of oppressor vs. oppressed before they can reliably tie their shoes. White children are told their skin makes them inherently privileged. Boys are told their masculinity is toxic. Straight kids learn their orientation is just one option on a spectrum that changes daily.
And parents? Many schools now operate under the philosophy that they know better than you do what your child needs. One framework literally calls for schools to meet the “whole child” — physical, emotional, social, even spiritual — rendering families obsolete.
I’ve talked to mothers who cried describing how their eight-year-old came home asking if they were a bad person because of their race. This isn’t education. It’s psychological warfare.
Why Victimhood Is the Perfect Trojan Horse
Here’s the diabolical brilliance: nobody wants to be the bad guy.
When you convince an entire generation that the highest moral status comes from being oppressed—or from being the most vocal “ally” to the oppressed—you create an army that polices itself. People compete to prove their victim credentials. Nuance dies. Mercy disappears.
Suddenly cancel culture makes perfect sense. It’s not new. It’s the same struggle session tactics used in China and Cambodia, just rebranded with better graphics and corporate sponsorship.
“A population trained to see everything through grievance is a population that will never resist control. They’ll demand it.”
That line stopped me cold when I heard it. Because it explains everything: the rage mobs, the corporate virtue signaling, the way dissent is treated like a public health crisis.
The Sexual Revolution Was Always Political
Most conservatives focus on drag queen story hour or bathroom laws—and those matter—but they’re missing the bigger picture.
The push to sexualize children isn’t about liberation. It never was. It’s about severing the primary loyalty that competes with the state: the family.
When a child trusts a teacher or counselor more than their parents about fundamental questions of identity, the state has won. When schools hide “gender transitions” from families, they’re not protecting kids. They’re claiming ownership.
This isn’t hyperbole. There are now curricula asking middle-schoolers detailed questions about their sexual experiences. Puberty blockers are discussed like multivitamins. The boundary between childhood and adulthood has been deliberately erased.
The Dumbed Down and Dopamine Hooked
Another piece of the puzzle: the deliberate lowering of educational standards.
Critical thinking is dangerous to revolutionaries. Much better to have a population that responds emotionally, craves instant gratification, and outsources their reasoning to approved experts.
That’s why history has been replaced with “studies” courses that teach resentment over facts. Why math and reading scores keep falling while “social-emotional learning” budgets explode. Why kids can tell you 72 gender identities but not when the Civil War happened.
A nation of adults who think with their feelings is a nation that can be led anywhere.
But There’s Hope (If We’re Brave Enough)
Here’s what gives me hope: this ideology is a parasite. It can only survive by feeding on healthy institutions. Remove the host, and it dies.
That means:
- Pulling kids from public schools when possible (homeschooling numbers have exploded for a reason)
- Supporting politicians who will defund the indoctrination machine
- Refusing to self-censor out of fear
- Rebuilding parallel institutions—churches, community groups, businesses—that aren’t compromised
- Most importantly: raising children with moral clarity and the ability to think for themselves
The revolutionaries understand something most conservatives don’t: culture is upstream of politics. Win the culture, and the politics follow.
We can win this. But only if we stop treating these ideas as just another political disagreement. This is a civilizational struggle between freedom and a new totalitarianism wearing the mask of kindness.
The question is no longer whether something dark is happening.
The question is what we’re willing to do about it—before our children grow up in a country we no longer recognize.
Because make no mistake: they’re counting on our silence.
And silence, as those classroom posters keep reminding us, is violence.
