These kids also realize that it'd be suicide to risk career, livelihood, and personal safety to do what Kyle did...if an armed burglar breaks into a conservative GenZers home saying "society is to blame for my life and give me your jewelry" the GenZer will shoot the bad guy in mid sentence, but the avg conservative GenZer knows better than to go looking for trouble in this day and age. Better to lay low, make some dough, stay out of trouble, pay lip-service to stupidity, but keep the candle burning...it'll turn around.
I'm not saying there is NO cause for concern. There are plenty of youths that are are loony. But my elders thought GenXers were flannel-wearing self-indulgent whiners and we generally turned out ok. Age has a way of refining the idiocy of youth, like time and pressure turn coal into a diamond.
Swear allegiance to the flag,
Whatever flag they offer;
Never hint at what you really feel.
Teach the children quietly,
For, someday, sons and daughters
Will rise up and fight while we stood still.
Silent Running
Mike and the Mechanics