American author, mathematician, and political commentator, Dr. James Lindsay joined Turning Point USA’s CEO and Founder Charlie Kirk at AmFest to discuss the cultural fads manufactured by the left which create a greater dependency on government.
Throughout the United States, parents have observed a radical shift in public school policies. Topics that were once considered too taboo to discuss with young students soon became the primary focus, and once some parents realized this, it was much too late.
Public schools, as well as higher education, have become indoctrination machines, churning out state-approved doctrines driven by the popular political movement of our day: progressivism.
Children in preschool and kindergarten have been led to a state of confusion, as they are actively told by teachers that boys and girls are interchangeable, and may choose whichever gender they would like to identify as. Dr. James Lindsay calls this tactic, “trauma bonding.”
“It confuses them — it actually shuts down their process to be able to understand what the world is, it forces them to turn to an ‘expert,'” Lindsay explained while speaking to Kirk. “This has a real name in the psychological literature called ‘trauma bonding.’ You traumatize the kids to induce a personal identity crisis then you bond with them as giving them the only resolution to that.”
This confusion and “trauma,” as Lindsay remarked, creates a dependence on government institutions, first and foremost for these young children being the public school system. When these ideas are presented to young and “impressionable” children, Lindsay says, they are much more likely to choose to identify in a way not aligned with their biology.
“Desperately confused individuals who are becoming medical patients, in a huge— the biggest, child abuse scandal that has ever happened in history, who have lifetime commitments to an extraordinarily expensive medical system— they require medical care for the rest of their lives— drugs, surgeries, support care, this is expensive,” Lindsay said.
“Well, what happens? You saddle kids with tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars of student loan debt, what do they start begging for politically? — Student loan relief. You saddle kids with hundreds of thousands of dollars of medical debt, what do you think they’re going to ask for? — Socialized medicine.”
He explained that the left needs these “broken, confused kids” and drew a comparison between the modern progressive movement in the U.S. and Chinese dictator Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution.
“They need broken confused kids, just like Mao Zedong needed angry people who hated normalcy in China, the old ways of China,” Lindsay explained. “Mao created a Red Guard by radicalizing the youth to distrust their parents, to hate their parents, to hate the enemies of the people, to hate the people of the wrong classes, the people who weren’t revolutionaries the people who weren’t activists. Mao did that and what he created was a red guard, what [the left] needs is a rainbow guard.”
Lindsay encouraged individuals to investigate who and what entities are funding this ideological push and to shed light on the “dark heart of queer theory,” as he calls the movement.
Lindsay told the audience that, “The thing that these people fear the most is clear articulations that expose what they’re doing,” which is why he has chosen to dedicate his public platform to being an outspoken opponent of the progressive movement.
