What are you left with? A financially difficult life with little family, political, or spiritual support.
You are unable to pay for your education, and you have no one to blame but your neighbors, thanks to the xenophobic rhetoric of media outlets, politicians, and churches. Blaming others is a convenient way for some people to avoid blaming themselves or the wealthy. So, the media outlets spread distrust of liberal progressives (who actually support the working man), foreigners, other countries, races, religions, and languages, worsening the problems related to civil rights, black rights, women's rights, LGBTQIA+ rights, and feelings of reverse discrimination. President Reagan and the GOP also made laws that would allow lies to spread on TV under the guise of "freedom of speech." Now social media influencers have made it even worse. Some people turn to the church when they feel helpless, but like politicians, many churches offer nothing but “pie in the sky” and promote distrust of others not like them. They, too, have their own agendas, which are not very "Jesus-like", in practice.
What are you left with? A financially difficult life with little family, political, or spiritual support.
Many young people do not feel like they can go anywhere better or have the opportunity to do anything big, so they settle for low-paying jobs and go in for distractions—video games, social media posts, the next purchase, the next football game on TV, the next high, or the next holiday—to forget the pain, the difficulty, and the emptiness of their existence. People become so busy with their distractions that nothing else gets done. Unfortunately, some of these distractions, particularly the conspiracy theories, spread hate and distrust, too. It is easier to make up a simple story to explain all your problems than to really understand and face the real problems (especially when those problems are signing your paychecks).
