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It happens in college/university...

My daughter went off to a major midwest university as a logical, level-headed teenager...

After 4 years, she turned into an islamo-loving, BLM fascist supporter...

The real problem is you cannot even talk to her, turns into a Karen at the slightest comment about politics...

They (the faculty) turn these kids and train them to be intolerant to opposing viewpoints...that’s the frightening part!

Whatever is going on at these universities appears to be working, and it’s not in support of this country...IMHO

The schools and universities are pressure cookers of indoctrination. Our sons likewise became more left leaning after college. The older one is slowly waking up, although he's basically apolitical. His serious girlfriends have all been family oriented conservative girls, although he's now unattached while working and applying for additional education. He works in health care and he sees the BS around the COVID political situation. Our younger son is in grad school and very affected by the green agenda and the anti-police rhetoric. He isn't out protesting though, and all his friends are living sensible lives of growing responsibility. I see them both leveling out as life unfolds.

University life and pressures on young women can be pretty toxic. I didn't enjoy it much myself back in the late 70's and basically swam in a fog of semi-depression for most of it. Even in high school girls were being pressured by a lot of mixed messages about what to conform to - our parents' ideals, which seemed overly strict and dull, popular culture, which usually involved being used for sex or taking drugs, or finding one's one path in a brand-new landscape. I don't think it's gotten better for girls and young women. I think it's in many ways worse. Much of popular culture is degraded and degrading to women. Resisting the hook-up culture and refusing to walk in liberal lockstep can lead to loneliness. We are social creatures, and the threat of loneliness or ridicule is a powerful motivator. I suspect there is a lot of self loathing among young women today. They conform to a degrading culture but deep in their souls they can't deny how they feel. How many have aborted their own children? Probably many. They turn the self loathing outward in anger at the world and the evils of the system that they perceive to be at fault. Unfortunately, the indoctrination of the educational system causes them to point their accusing fingers at all the wrong people and causes of their unease.

We have a young woman in our family who is very difficult to be around these days. She's an uber liberal lesbian married to a minority. She preaches to us at every opportunity. We love her, but we don't enjoy her company at this stage of her development. When I find her hard to take I try to remember that once upon a time, when I was in college, I thought Jimmy Carter would make a good president. My mother didn't bother to argue with me. She just bought me a planter in the shape of a peanut that came with peanut seeds, so I could grow a peanut plant in my apartment. Once I left college and was subjected to double-digit interest rates, double-digit inflation rates, and waiting in line on alternate days for gas, my worldview started shifting back. It was like slowly waking from a dream. She's 95 now and we talk politics regularly - We've been on the same side of the political fence since Reagan's presidency.