Commentary Leaders and teachers are encouraging us to feel offended over a long list of grievances. We humans are easily offended, so fanning grievances is an effective way for a leader to recruit followers. Your stock of resentments is your ticket into the “army of discontent,” as Karl Marx called it. Leaders have weaponized public emotions throughout human history, of course. Here’s a look at some historical examples, to help clarify the way mental health is being weaponized today. The Soviet Union was known for putting political dissidents in mental asylums. Most dissidents went to Siberian labor camps, of course, but high-profile critics were not easily dispensed with because they could morph into heroes. Soviet leaders looked for a way to tarnish dissidents, so they put them into psychiatric wards. You must be crazy if you don’t love the socialist utopia, right? Today, you get painted as a tin-hat lunatic …