Think about the BPD kids in Portland and elsewhere: is each and every one a massive parenting failure? Do not some come from relatively well to do homes, with parents who did their level best to love and care for them? Yes, this seems likely.
What else is involved? I would hazard a guess that, if we suppose that BPD is basically two year old behavior in a biological adult–who of course would get overwhelmed by everything when operating with the emotional command and control apparatus of an infant who needs a parent–then perhaps one of the key losses in the culture war as it now stands is a clear pathway to adulthood.
Some combination of media addiction, superficial parenting, and the fact that our society never demands that people individuate and separate from the parental matrix (I would suggest that this word is multifaceted, in that in such a world nothing is truly real, since an immature person cannot see but through the eyes of others, making the whole world a mass illusion; I would further suggest, as I have in the past, that socialism for such people is simply a pathway to being a child, with a directly involved parent, their whole lives), causes perennial childishness.
Antifa, from all rational perspectives, is little more than play acting and public tantrums. If it is true that white conservatives are the real danger, it can only be because as a group we have individuated, and are capable of effective purposive behavior at the individual level. We are also a much greater risk for running our own companies, raising successful well adjusted families, going to church to find a higher purpose, and to be capable of giving back to our communities in meaningful and useful ways.
And even where it is not presenting itself in the street in pointless charades, dissociation is everywhere. Life is supposed to feel meaningful. It is not supposed to feel like you are in perennial war you cannot escape, which is how it feels I think for many if not most Americans. The Rat Race is a war, and you cannot feel your natural, relaxed best at wartime.
So this sense of disconnection, this abstraction (which I recall Jacques Barzun among others mentioning as a defining attribute of what he called our declining, or at least decadent, civilization) is everywhere. It makes all lives beset by it less rich, life less fun. We should sing more, dance more, relax more. But we don’t. A quasi-military mindset underlies everything.