I wish I could share your optimism. What is different about today is that there are far too many young people who have been brought up with no religious training, with no sense of respect for anyone, and with no fear of any authority.
I have 2 children (11 and 13) and I really NEED to be optomistic or I will just break down and cry! I am seeing that this war is winnable, but we really need to get government out of their lives and parents beack in (I’m fiesty, I never left). Most children I run into that seem at risk of falling for this stuff seem to be looking for something to be a part of. Mine are part of a family.
I hear you. Hang in there, stay in their faces even when they start acting like they want you out of their lives.
So glad my children are already raised. It was hard enough in the 1980s and 1990s.
God bless.