American adults like to blame everyone but themselves

The big investigative story today is about "the crisis of student mental health" that much of the nation is confronting, at least according to the Washington Post... and so many adults who seem lost as to how to proceed.

Yes, there should be more counseling, and yes, there should be more access, and yes, there should be more community building activities. Schools probably haven't done enough, but when have they ever done enough?

My thought, however, is that with much of the country undergoing some sort of depression/avalanche of hate/lack of confidence in the future of the country... how could students NOT be having mental health issues? If they were not, THAT might the sign of something truly insidious (or perhaps something involving excessive medications).

The Angry White People Party is curiously silent about their cult leader's call for eliminating parts of the Constitution (or perhaps just leaping to a dictatorship?). Political division has paralyzed progress about a range of challenges, from gun violence to marital rights to immigration policy. We can't even find any ways to eliminate child hunger in the country. 

Add the insidious effects of social media and the unintended consequences of everyone being able to create their own "virtual community" rather than interacting with real humans... 

Yes, virtual learning during the pandemic was a disaster, but that is over (for the most part) and things continue to spiral among young people. 

It's the season for hope right now, but it must be tough to find much hope to latch onto for many young Americans.

But, by all means, the adults must keep fighting incessantly over "their deeply held beliefs." Really?

A Colorado woman who designs websites sued the state over a law that does not allow her to refuse service to same sex marriages, and now the Supreme Court is weighing whether her argument that doing so would offend her "deeply held moral beliefs" is OK. 

Breaking news: she has never been asked to create a website for same sex marriages and why would anyone do so? But let's go to the nation's highest court and further debase any claim that branch of government has to legitimacy?

"Children will listen," as we are reminded by "Into the Woods." And they are listening, and watching... and despairing.