{"id":2655762,"date":"2026-09-08T07:43:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T11:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignwhat-to-do-when-cancel-culture-invades-your-home\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T07:45:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T11:45:14","slug":"utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignwhat-to-do-when-cancel-culture-invades-your-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignwhat-to-do-when-cancel-culture-invades-your-home\/","title":{"rendered":"What To Do When Cancel Culture Invades Your Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Futm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignwhat-to-do-when-cancel-culture-invades-your-home%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2655762&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>This excerpt discusses the widespread theme of abandonment in modern society, often enabled by government policies, including divorce, abortion, and neglectful caregiving. It highlights the emerging &#8220;no contact&#8221; movement, where family members cut ties over ideological disagreements related to politics and culture, particularly surrounding issues like LGBTQ rights and political alignment, frequently enough driven by cultural Marxism. The author examines how therapy language has been misused to label non-abusive struggles as trauma or abuse, undermining genuine suffering and fueling a psychologized view of morality. This has contributed to power struggles and disorientation within relationships, especially when individuals project victimhood to justify harmful actions.<\/p>\n<p>The text also criticizes the societal tendency to ostracize those holding traditional or differing beliefs, equating political dissent with moral and civilizational rejection, and condemns leftist attempts to frame political opposition as moral evil. It argues that these divisions reflect a deeper spiritual crisis rooted in the rejection of Christianity-the only true foundation for moral and social order.The author advocates for spiritual solutions, including prayer, Bible reading, church attendance, and repentance, as remedies to familial and cultural disintegration. the piece frames current social and political conflicts as symptoms of a spiritual crisis that requires spiritual healing rooted in Christian faith.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Abandonment is a dominant theme of our age, and most of it is government-enabled. Adults abandon their own children and spouses en masse through no-responsibility divorce, subsidized indolence, and abortion. Children abandon parents to old folks\u2019 homes, some visiting rarely. And parents abandon children to daycare from birth, screentime with deranged strangers, and public schools that increasingly function like orphanages.<\/p>\n<p>So it should be no surprise there\u2019s now a trend of children abandoning non-abusive family members. The \u201cno contact\u201d movement is another logical outcome of the sexual revolution and \u201cMe Generation\u2019s\u201d firm belief that people are objects to use rather than sacred souls born or vowed into lifetime obligations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/No-Contact-Seductive-Ideology-Friendships\/dp\/B0G5X5ZSKX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>No Contact<\/em><\/a>, a book out Sept. 8 by <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/author\/noellemering\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">regular Federalist contributor Noelle Mering<\/a>, explores this trend in the generous, apolitical style of Abigail Shrier\u2019s 2024 bestseller, <em>Bad Therapy<\/em>. Mering notes the majority of family cutoffs today are driven by cultural Marxism. This means most kids who go \u201cno contact\u201d today are triggered by religious and political disagreements, such as family members\u2019 unwillingness to enthusiastically endorse LGBTQ behaviors and disinclination to vote for Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>One of Noelle\u2019s gifts is taking seriously the perspective of those she critiques, a relationship art and discussion tone that is rare today. She is good at understanding and explaining without judgement how someone could arrive at an action as extreme-sounding as cutting off his dad for watching Fox News. Mering explains, \u201cToday, political disputes are not merely about means but about <em>ends <\/em>\u2014 dealing with questions that go directly to the heart of what it means to be human\u2026 Increasingly, younger people project this concept of political alignment as the determinant of moral stature onto an older generation that generally doesn\u2019t view disagreements in the same way\u201d (emphasis original). <\/p>\n<h2>Appropriating Trauma and Abuse<\/h2>\n<p>One of my favorite sections explores the phenomenon of \u201cbroadening the definition of trauma.\u201d As Noelle notes in chapter 3, \u201cTherapy-speak has come to pervade everyday conversation.\u201d While some good may come from this, some evil has, too. One of the evils has been people choosing to label as \u201cabuse\u201d or \u201ctrauma\u201d things that are objectively not abuse or trauma. This is not only lying, it is cruel to people who experience genuine abuse by trivializing their experiences.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDiscomfort is pathologized, challenging relationships are toxic, everyday struggles point to childhood trauma, and ideological dissent is framed as psychological violence or genocide,\u201d Noelle notes of the prevailing attitude. Such behaviors are markers of the West\u2019s psychologization of spiritual problems and consequent weaponization of therapeutic language. <\/p>\n<p>When Western culture abandoned Christianity, it needed to enforce standards somehow. So psychology became one substitute. The problem is, without a objective moral standard outside psychology to inform its judgments (i.e., a <em>theology<\/em>), psychology just descends into a power play, yet another system of symbols used to manipulate others rather than an objective standard to which all must conform for social happiness. <\/p>\n<p>As Mering notes, citing philosopher Josef Pieper, \u201cThe abuse of language is a precursor to abuse of power. Once words are no longer bound to reality, they become weapons used to shape perception, suppress dissent, and seduce people into submission.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So this toxic-therapeutic phenomenon largely comprises narcissistic individuals projecting their selfishness onto others, blaming their victims for the real narcissists\u2019 actions. It can be very disorienting for a decent person to be called a narcissist by the real narcissist, because people with functioning moral standards take such accusations and their loved ones\u2019 feelings seriously. This gives wicked people the whip hand over honest people, allowing them to harm others while claiming those they hurt are the real problem. <\/p>\n<p>Noelle is gentler than this reviewer about exploring this dynamic and many of the factors that enable it, without obscuring its deep dysfunction: \u201cImagine a child walking on eggshells around an unpredictable parent, fearing their rejection or rage,\u201d she writes. \u201cNow reverse the roles. The toxicity becomes unmistakable: the authority these adult children wield mirrors the very authoritarianism they claim to oppose.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Ostracism For Righteousness<\/h2>\n<p>Since time immemorial, societies have rightly ostracized people who refuse to abide by or even acknowledge moral norms such as working to provide for oneself and refraining from unjust violence. Mering makes clear that her book is not about situations in which justice and safety for the vulnerable require separation from unreformed chronic offenders \u2014 for example, refusing to allow a gambler to access the family finances and keeping children from perverts. <\/p>\n<p>The key problem is that the left today groups people who disagree with their civilization-destroying practices with behavior that may warrant ostracism. Voting for Trump, they say, makes you a Nazi and Confederate. Declining to endorse transgender mutilation, the mass manufacture of children for unrelated adults to purchase, and pre-teens <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Desmond_is_Amazing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">stripping for adults<\/a> is psychotic, irrational, unhinged <em>hate<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The truth is, Donald Trump is not a Nazi, and it\u2019s insane to claim so. It\u2019s loving to protect kids and bodies from the gross abuses the queer agenda demands. These are reasonable and moral positions, but the left doesn\u2019t care about reason. That\u2019s why it won\u2019t engage in dialogue. It just moves past dialogue to withdrawal or inflicting pain on those they see as enemies. <\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why leftists beat up people who disagree with their way of life by screaming false names at them like \u201cbigot\u201d and \u201chater.\u201d This is an article of ignorant faith with them, not of reason, because when subjected to even the tiniest bits of reason (such as that men and women are different), their beliefs collapse. They don\u2019t care about truth. They just want power. It is the political coalition of the addict or screaming toddler.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s left has constructed an immoral fantasy universe that labels fundamental tenets of Christianity and natural laws evil. So leftism has become just another pagan religion that competes with and works to stamp out Christianity. This means \u201cno contact\u201d is simply Marxist cancel culture applied to homes and families. It is a tool of religious hatred that works to punish righteousness and advance evil, under the guise of doing the opposite.<\/p>\n<h2>Underneath, a Spiritual Crisis<\/h2>\n<p>All this is a relationship, family, cultural, and political crisis, to be sure, but underneath all that it is a spiritual crisis. The spiritual problem is the spiteful, indeed demonic rejection of the only religion that can form the basis for spiritual and social freedom \u2014 Christianity.<\/p>\n<p>The proper way to respond to spiritual problems is with spiritual tools: prayer, righteous living, reading the Bible, attending church avidly, speaking the truth with love. Mering is excellent at modeling and counseling speaking the truth in love, and at commending her readers to self-reflection and repentance.<\/p>\n<p>If this were a more directly spiritual book, in keeping with the realities underlying this cultural trend, it would have benefitted from more discussion of other tools for dealing with open rebellion against familial duties. These include spiritual resistance through Bible-commanded actions such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianity.com\/bible\/nkjv\/matthew\/18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">private and public rebuke<\/a>, fasting, scripture memorization, hymn and Psalm-singing, church attendance beyond Sundays, individual <a href=\"https:\/\/catechism.cph.org\/en\/confession.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">confession and absolution<\/a> to relieve guilty consciences, and fervent individual and corporate prayer.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Joy Pullmann is executive editor of The Federalist and the researcher and host for The Federalist&#8217;s forthcoming lawfare podcast series, &#8220;Overruled.&#8221; Her latest book with Regnery is &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/false-colors-the-flag-of-our-occupation-joy-pullmann\/20707173?ean=9781684515875\">False Flag: Why Queer Politics Mean the End of America<\/a>.&#8221;  A happy wife and the mother of six children, her ebooks include the NEW &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/payhip.com\/b\/ZT5Wd\" target=\"_blank\">300 Classic Books for Ages 9 to Adult<\/a>,&#8221; and the bestselling &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/payhip.com\/b\/R1JL\">Classic Books For Young Children<\/a>.&#8221;      An 20-year education and politics reporter, Joy has testified before nearly two dozen legislatures on education policy and appeared on major media including Tucker Carlson, CNN, Fox News, OANN, NewsMax, Ben Shapiro, and Dennis Prager. Joy is a grateful graduate of the Hillsdale College honors and journalism programs who identifies as native American and gender natural. Joy is also the cofounder of a high-performing Christian classical school and the author and coauthor of classical curricula.    Her traditionally published books also include &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Education-Invasion-Parents-Control-American\/dp\/1594038813\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1486730068&#038;sr=8-1&#038;keywords=education+invasion\">The Education Invasion: How Common Core Fights Parents for Control of American Kids<\/a>,&#8221; from Encounter Books.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Modern family breakdown driven by government policies and cultural shifts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":519,"featured_media":2655763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/No-Contact-image.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[32365,85274,85273,46242,85275],"class_list":["post-2655762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-cancel-culture","tag-emotional-resilience","tag-online-reputation","tag-personal-boundaries","tag-social-conflicts"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/No-Contact-image.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2655762"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2655765,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655762\/revisions\/2655765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2655763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2655762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2655762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2655762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}