Fully-grown adults subscribe to obvious nonsense and the left shamelessly pushes fake truths in the public square.

How did we get to this point? On paper, the West is the richest and most successful it has ever been. Where is this bonkers woke influence coming from? Why are so many people, especially younger folk, lurching towards liberal nonsense, which some call the 'woke mind virus'?

The answer might be simpler than we think.

An underrated factor in the woke tsunami sweeping through today's youth is their change in diet. Because they are all desperate to be seen doing their bit to save the planet, they love green virtue-signaling. That means they go vegan – more than 19 million Americans are on a "plant-based diet" – and, crucially, avoid eating meat or drinking milk. They look down on the rest of us who dare to eat a steak or make a coffee with dairy creamer as nature-killing bigots.

That means they must find product substitutes for meat and milk in their diets. These substitutes generally taste terrible – such is the sacrifice of a young liberal. Instead of meat, they often eat synthetic patties made of various questionable chemicals. And instead of milk, they drink all kinds of other things which often hurt the planet even more than cows – and don't make a nice coffee.