The polity at large has lost its ability to discriminate due to cultural Marxism, which has inexorably forced generations to accept moral relativism through the schools and pop culture.

The insanity we see on all levels is due to the profound disconnect between perception and reality, and the corresponding angst produced in humans who are muscularly denying their humanity. Marcus Aurelius made the point for natural law directly 2000 years ago; Thomas Aquinas called it “life based on observable truth.”

None of this is new, or particularly difficult. The modern scholar J. Budzisewski makes the case clearly in his book “What We Can’t Not Know,” and even that ol’ hippie Steven Gaskin put it in plain English 40 years ago with “You do too know what I mean.”

Children are born with the ability to act truthfully, and discern the distinction between truth and falsehood, as is readily apparent to anybody who’s raised one. This is what “born in God’s image” means – awareness.

Anyone who indulges in angels-on-the-head-of-a-pin arguments regarding the subjectivity of truth is feeding into the problem, and is indeed a “useful idiot.” Read a little of Alinsky’s attacks on self-awareness if you don’t think that Lefties know this, and depend on it to foment destruction, which is their only aim.