Dreher says:

In radicalizing the broader class of elites, social justice warriors (SJWs) are playing a similar historic role to the Bolsheviks in prerevolutionary Russia. SJW ranks are full of middle-class, secular, educated people wracked by guilt and anxiety over their own privilege, alienated from their own traditions, and desperate to identify with something, or someone, to give them a sense of wholeness and purpose. For them, the ideology of social justice--as defined not by church teaching but by critical theorists in the academy--functions as a pseudoreligion. Far from being confined to campuses and dry intellectual journals, SJW ideals are transforming elite institutions and networks of power and influence.

Live Not By Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents. New York City, NY: Sentinel. 2020, p. 42.

Schaeffer says:

If we as Christians do not speak out as authoritarian governments grow from within or come from outside, eventually we or our children will be the enemy of society and the state. No truly authoritarian government can tolerate those who have a real absolute by which to judge its arbitrary absolutes and who speak out and act upon that absolute.

How Should We Then Live? in The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian Worldview, volume 5, A Christian View of the West. Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books. 1982. pg. 254.

Schaeffer says:

Actually, TV manipulates viewers just by its normal way of operating. Many viewers seem to assume that when they have seen something on TV, they have seen it with their own eyes. It makes the viewer think he has actually been on the scene. He knows, because his own eyes have seen. He has the impression of greater direct objective knowledge than ever before. For many, what they seen on television becomes more true than what they see with their eyes in the external world.

Schaeffer continues:

With an elite providing the arbitrary absolutes, not just TV but the general apparatus of the mass media can be a vehicle for manipulation. There is no need for collusion or a plot. All that is needed is the world-view of the elite and the world-view of the central news media coincide. One may discuss if planned collusion exists at times, but to be looking only for the possibility of a clandestine plot opens the way for failing to see a much greater danger: that many of those who are in the most prominent places of influence and many of those who decide what is news do have the common, modern, humanist world-view we have described at length in this book. It is natural that they act upon this viewpoint, with varying degrees of consciousness of what they are doing, and even varying degrees of consciousness of who is using whom. Their world-view is the grid which determines their presentation.

How Should We Then Live? in The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian Worldview, volume 5, A Christian View of the West. Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books. 1982. pg. 240-241. (bold emphasis mine)

Schaeffer scarily points out:

I cannot get out of my mind the uncomfortable parallel to the Germans' loss of confidence in the Wiemar Republic just before Hitler, which was caused by unacceptable inflation. History indicates that at a certain point of economic breakdown people cease being concerned with individual liberties and are ready to accept regimentation. The danger is obviously even greater when the two main values so many people have are personal peace and affluence.

How Should We Then Live? in The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian Worldview, volume 5, A Christian View of the West. Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books. 1982. pg. 245-246. (emphasis added)

In these two paragraphs, Dreher aptly notes the Orwellian "doublethink" our society demands of us:

In our time, we do not have an all-powerful state forcing this on us. This dictatorship is far more subtle. Under soft totalitarianism, the media, academia, corporate America, and other institutions are practicing Newspeak and compelling the rest of us to engage in doublethink every day. Men have periods. The woman standing in front of you is to be called "he." Diversity and inclusion means excluding those who object to ideological uniformity. Equity means treating persons unequally, regardless of their skills and achievements, to achieve an ideologically correct result.

To update an Orwell line to our own situation: "The Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

Live Not By Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents. New York City, NY: Sentinel. 2020, p. 15.

Schaeffer says:

We must not accept minor secondary causes as to why man sins. Some psychological and sociological conditioning occurs in every man's life, and this affects the decisions he makes. But we must resist the modern concept that all sin can be explained merely on the basis of conditioning. In our generation there is a constant tendency to explain sin lightly and think that such an explanation is more humanitarian. But it isn't. It decreases the importance and significance of man.

Death in the City in The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer. vol. 4. Wheaton, IL: Crossway books. 1982. p. 274.

Schaeffer says:

It's no small thing to stick with the message. It's easy to opt out. Evangelicals can easily opt out into their own little ghetto, saying nice things to themselves and closing their eyes to the real situation that surrounds them. One can opt out in many ways. But if one really preaches the Word of God to a post-Christian world, he must understand that he is likely to end up like Jeremiah.

Death in the City in The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer. vol. 4. Wheaton, IL: Crossway books. 1982. p. 249.

Schaeffer says:

What should we say about our country? Of course, we should be glad for the freedoms we do have. But having said that, should we not also understand that since our culture no longer has a Christian base, there's going to be death in the city? Death in the city will be increasingly all-consuming unless there is true reformation in the church and culture upon the foundation of God and His revelation. Do you think our country can remain as it has been, after it has thrown away the Christian base? Do not be foolish.

Death in the City in The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer. vol. 4. Wheaton, IL: Crossway books. 1982. p. 223.