Whatever native intelligence they may possess has been subverted, inverted, and perverted by an educational establishment whose inner logic strives to perfect a ruthless social engineering scheme, intrinsically no different from the Soviet project of creating 'a new man'.
These misguided youths are a sorry substitute for a well-schooled posterity, capable of carrying out needful historical tasks.
Wacko leftist groups are a handy means of derailing intellectual critics of the American State from pursuing effective opposition to it. Frankly, an angry citizenry is just what the country needs to save it from a recurrence of the Clinton phenomena, surely a low point in recent times of probity in high office.
As it is, the so-called 'Left alternative' offers NO real alternative to the massive and intrusive state which has been the bane of humanity, including America for more than half a century.
I think young people will not long be fooled by this barren choice-- corrupt interest-driven government as offered by the Republicans OR interest-driven corrupt government, but more of it, the insane Democratic alternative!
The public schools are turning out legions of graduates whose science education has been warped by the governing paradigm. At some point in time, young people will have a moment of enlightenment. ;^)
Then we will see how the socialist wet-dream state fares. I predict, 'not well'.
Sorry to rant off-topic, but enviro-wackoism is made possible only by a school system which values politically correct ignorance to applecart-upsetting truth.
I call it the RINOcrat Party.