Morning kids! It’s the other side of Wednesday and we’re barreling toward the weekend. I actually don’t mind the weekdays in between Sunday and Saturday. That’s when I’m most productive and doing what I’m good at. But the weekends are a regular pause from the usual gig I have and I’m always appreciative of the flexibility they offer away from the office.

I don’t know about you, but one of the thing that truly puzzles me is the certifiable insanity that seems to characterize the Left. I don’t mean the occasional loopy burnout who lost their mind years ago and is kept around as some sort of harmless novelty. I’m talking about the stark-raving madness that progressives have descended into over the last few years.

It starts with insults that defame fellow Americans, like Hillary’s “basket of deplorables” and Barack’s “bitter clingers” comments. It encompasses exhortations to violence, like Maxine Waters’ “If you see anybody from [Trump’s] cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. You push back on them. Tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere!” and Eric Holder’s “Michelle [Obama] always says, ‘When they go low, we go high.’ No. No. When they go low, we kick them.”

It shows up in this person who literally shakes and screams as though they just lost a loved one, rather than an election.

We see it in the rantings of people like this guy, who declares that a black woman is “not black on the inside” and that he’s “more black” than she is on the inside—I kid you not. It’s also because he thinks he’s Jesus Christ.

It showed up several times in the straight-faced lying Adam Schiff committed in Congress and on the Sunday morning talks shows when he said there was “ample evidence” of collusion between Trump’s presidential campaign and the Russians. Except that the Mueller report found no evidence of collusion and recent documentation made public shows the whole thing was a fabricated hoax. He lied every time he said he had seen the evidence.

We see it in the overt attempts to obfuscate American history with the New York Times‘ derelict “1619 Project.” We see it in national leaders like Andrew Cuomo claiming that America “was never that great.” We hear it in Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s idiotic pledge to “get rid of farting cows and airplanes.”

We see it in the irrationality of the Black Lives Matter^TM movement and the attendant riots as protesters demand that we defund the police, aided and abetted by mayors and governors as cities descend into lawlessness and violence. We see it in the indiscriminate vandalism and destruction of statues as varied as George Washington, Robert E. Lee, and Frederick Douglass. We see it in the cancel culture of everything from Eskimo pies to Uncle Ben’s rice to the words “master bedroom” to soap to freeways. (Don’t believe me? These and more are documented @ Titania McGrath below.)

So my question is, what ties all this insanity together? Why are so many people acting out in such irrational ways? One answer is “TDS” (Trump Derangement Syndrome). But while that’s a thing, what’s happening seems to go beyond just hatred for the president.

Some might call it “the spirit of the age,” the zeitgeist, that’s comprised of certain attitudes and values in a society during a certain era. Our current epoch is characterized by the absence of moral absolutes, political entrenchment, and the rejection of biblical norms. That seems to definitely be part of what’s happening.

As a Christian, I believe that we have an enemy in the devil, a malevolent spirit who Jesus called “the father of lies” (John 8:45) and who Paul said was “the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient” (Eph. 2:2). Paul also tells us that “The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God” (1 Cor. 4:4). This, too, is part of what is happening.

I think it’s mostly a combination of the second and third options. We live in a society populated by at least two generations of men and women who have been indoctrinated by far-left zealots in our high schools and universities. They have corrupted their students with critical race theory and Marxist philosophy, which has ignited a hatred for the very country in which they live. And, because “the god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers,” they are susceptible to destructive philosophies that not only wreck society, but their individual lives.

“For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine,” says Paul. “Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths” (2 Tim. 4:3-4). We are in one of those moments when people are not putting up with “sound doctrine,” but have rejected it wholesale.

Now we’re seeing the results.