Opinion: The Culture War Is Overtly Targeting Your Children

A culture war is raging, and it’s driving the political narrative. Cognizant adults recognize the impact of cultural shifts, and understand the political and social implications thereof. But children aren’t quite as equipped to recognize those influences. Good thing children aren’t in the middle of it, right?

Wrong.

Your children are being overtly targeted in the culture war.

Your children are being intentionally groomed for and desensitized to the ideals, values, and priorities of the radical cultural and political progressives.

It’s not an accident. It’s not an unintended consequence.

It is the main goal.

A prime example of this truth is music star Lil Nas X.

His hit song “Old Town Road” was quickly and wildly popular, especially with children. I still remember when my then-6 year old came home from playing in the neighborhood and was singing that song at the top of her lungs. I couldn’t believe how she knew all the words to a song I had never heard. “All the kids know it,” she said. And sure enough, it was the theme song of the playground for weeks. All the kids loved “Old Town Road.” I personally witnessed one of the kids a year or two older than her (7 or 8) carrying around their phone with YouTube blasting the song and music video on repeat while the kids all sang and watched it together.

While I wasn’t impressed with the message of the song, I was more concerned about the unsupervised internet access. I sat down with my kids and had a conversation about how their dad and I don’t feel comfortable with the kids having unsupervised internet and YouTube access, especially considering that it was on a friend’s phone. We discussed why we don’t allow the kids to simply browse YouTube and watch suggested videos with friends. We discussed the potential dangers and the possibility for inadvertently being exposed to inappropriate content. The kids and I made a commitment to each other to avoid such activities, and made a plan for how to respond if their friends encouraged them to participate in unsupervised internet browsing. I had no idea at the time how grateful I’d be that we had this discussion.

Lil Nas X is well aware that his fans are mostly children. In January, the singer discussed the reality that his core fan base is extremely young, saying,

“I’m well aware that life and careers and everything goes in chapters. That’s the chapter I’m in right now and I’m OK with that.”

Not only does he acknowledge that his fan base is primarily children, but he actively encourages it.

He performs for kids in the gyms at their elementary schools.

He appeared on The Not-Too-Late Show with Elmo to sing the theme song.

He wrote a children’s alphabet book called C is for Country, featuring an illustrated gay cowboy rendering of Lil Nas X in sparkly pink garb and explaining that F is for fringe, feathers, and fake fur.

He even held a virtual concert on a popular children’s gaming platform, Roblox, where over half of users are under 13 years old. The virtual concert had more than 30 million visits.

He is well aware that his core fan base is children, he encourages that trend, and he tailors his behavior and material to capitalize on that fan base.

So now, let’s consider his most recent hit song, Montero (Call Me By Your Name). I hope you never have to see the music video or hear the lyrics, but I have to describe it for you.

Lil Nas X, who recently came out as gay in real life, is dressed as a stripper. He proceeds to descend down into hell on a stripper pole, landing with his genitals directly in Satan’s face, where he then gives Satan a vulgar lap dance. The video includes graphic simulations of anal and oral sex with Satan himself. Additionally, the video includes religious imagery such as Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel painting of God touching the finger of Adam, but reimagined to be akin to homosexual pornography, with a naked and sexually posed Lil Nas X as Adam, and another naked man descending to sensually touch him.

The lyrics describe recreational drug use, casual oral and anal sex, and crass references to Judeo-Christian religious beliefs. The video and the song are incredibly graphic.

The intent is to normalize hyper-sexuality.

To normalize graphic and casual homosexual intercourse.

To mock and scorn traditional Judeo-Christian religious ideals and beliefs.

To make evil and vulgarity cool and popular.

And it’s aimed at your children.

Lil Nas X has millions of subscribed and devoted juvenile fans. He’s admitted that he knows this. He’s worked specifically to encourage this.

So he knew that was exactly who would be listening to this song and watching this music video when he made it. It was calculated.

It’s brilliant, really. Rather than fighting the culture war against intelligent, independent, critically thinking adults (those that are left, at least) who would recognize it for what it was, they realized that it would be easier to simply brainwash the younger generation by building a devoted fan base and then normalizing their progressive ideology within that fan base. Then as the kids grow and develop, the progressives have already won the war because the upcoming generation has been groomed to accept and agree.

And it’s not just Lil Nas X. It’s sweet little Hannah Montana who taught all her juvenile fans how to twerk and eat abortion cakes. It’s those tween heart-throb One Direction boys who promote gender fluidity and wear penis necklaces to accept awards for hit songs about oral sex. It’s Star Wars cartoons that introduce transgender alien characters into their new episodes.

All the while, the intelligent, independent, critically thinking adults are just trying to “stay out of it,” and are grateful that their kids aren’t in the middle of it.

Newsflash: your kids are in the middle of it.

Your children are the target.