Our weakness is mismanaging "shame", and name-calling is one manifestation of that. We don't know how reject false accusations of shame, instead we let ourselves get pulled into the accusers frame in which we defend ourselves to the point of virtue signaling.

To a degree, but to a much larger degree this:

https://odysee.com/@Blackpilled:b/hollywoodism:4

And then from there it gets much more complicated and psychologically insidious than that as the Long March into the Institutions began to take hold and have the intended effect. If I had to pinpoint a spot in American history and where her decline began in earnest and why, I would start there. From there you can begin to see the (((picture in motion))) and all the manipulation that brought us to this point.