We are breaking the rotten old patterns.
Things are definitely heating up on a lot of fronts.
Gang clashes and factional fights over territory, physical and conceptual.
It may be of interest to you and any other Chicagoans: there's a public high school in this area (picrel) where cult kids get groomed and programmed for roles in milintel, social engineering and other "soft control" strategies.
There are probably schools like that in wealthier suburbs of most large cities. Grooming zones for cult assets.
Same thing happens at the college level (picrel).