“the parading of the mentally ill in public spaces (drag shows, pride events).”

How true.

To this one can add the explosion in social media where mentally-deficient people can garner praise.

Those are merely visible symptoms. They are far downstream of the causes that made them pretty much inevitable.

To expand the view just a little bit… remember the Prohibition movement, or the “white feather” vultures in UK, or old style feminists like Valerie Solanas. The bomb-throwing (and mostly fake) anarchists. No doubt you could add more loons.

Were all those a whole lot saner than the drag queens and “pantifa — always in a bunch”?

How true.

To this one can add the explosion in social media where mentally-deficient people can garner praise for ranting about things they either know nothing about or simply ‘feel’ without real awareness of life. Coupled with protestors who can behave badly while masked (and to a large degree are encouraged by weak politicians) but who have never had a job that requires them to show discipline and fortitude, then we have too much in the public space.