It’s the reason, I’m convinced, that we’re seeing mass histrionics by the Progressive/Democrat establishment right now. We’re at a confluence of tipping points; one where the policies they’ve always wanted can be cemented, another where the public support they need to make it happen is on the verge of evaporating.
Case in point is Global Warming. Ok, let’s assume that it IS caused by humans and IS reversable. The younger generations will support all sorts of measures to combat it. Right up until the point where they’re told that as a result the price of electricity will skyrocket (necessarily) to where it’ll cost them dollars per minute to run (recharge) their iPhones.
At that point the Warmunists lose them.
Same thing with a whole host of other issues that involve the younger generations being informed, bluntly, what their “fair share” of the costs happen to be.
I meet a lot of twenty-somethings and global warming is a joke to them. School choice vouchers would attract many urban minority parents. I believe as you do that the Left is out of ideas. This full court press is their Operation Watch on the Rhine.