She asks: “Is a competition being arranged for the hearts and minds of those we love?” What can we tell her?

The interlopers do not care about your heart, they only care about what you do or do not do that gets in their way. They want to crush you, and engage in all kinds of reckless pressuring and diminishment to weaken you and make you more and more vulnerable, knowing the end game will be your annihilation. So all of the effort directed at diminishing those with intuitive reach is to take away their power so the games can continue unobserved and unopposed.