The children of the Boomers and those who came after I collectively call the "Bubble Wrap" kids. Because parents and teachers have been so concerned with promoting safety and protecting children from stress, they are not prepared to face reality.

Awards for participation that are an attempt to avoid any child being labeled a loser have given the BW kids the false impression that effort isn't necessary to get everything they want. When reality then slaps them in the face, showing them you get what you deserve, proportional to the effort, they don't have the mental tools to handle it.

The other factors noted in the study certainly play a part, but when you do everything possible to create several generations of helpless victims, you shouldn't be surprised by results that reflect you're a dumbass for doing so.

Dissolution of the family
2. Encouragement of mental illness by telling people with Homosexual or gender dysphoric tendencies that is is ok to indulge in them
3. Rewarding the above indulgences
4. mass media exposing people to dream lifestyles that make them feel like they will never acheve what appears to be the lot of everyone else.
5. Rewarding apparent mental illness and acting out at a very young age. Creating a situation where people learn to manifest mentally ill behaviors as a means to get ahead.
6. Helicopter parents
7. Excuses for all failures and as a result no one ever learns from them.
8. Trophies for everyone from a young age.
9. drugging children, especially boys, for normal behavior.
10. Allowing children to be closeted inside playing fantasy video games rather than running around outside running energy off and participating in the real actual world. [the result of this encourages #9]
11. Trying to make boys in to girls and failing to understand that the two are not the same. The result of which relates to problems 2, 3, 5 and 9.
12. I could go on....but I think you get the idea.

I am sure to get flamed for this but I know what taught me and my brother while growing up was a swift slap from our father when we failed to follow the program. By our early teens he never had to touch us again because "the LOOK" said it all. I remember as a young boy these words, "Quit that crying or I'll give you something to cry about". Temper tantrums were quelled in the very early stages and sad to say but they had to be beat into both of us just so the message was delivered loud and clear. Today I have nephews and grands who could use a good flogging on a regular basis.

Good post Blair.
Cognitive dissonance has its consequences.
When repeated false information is accepted and reality is ignored it results in a distorted twisted perversion of reality. This is what magik is all about. Evil is very consistent.
Example : Trump manufactures crisis on the border,(he is trying to stop illegal crossings ) Trump is a xenophobe .(he has married two foreign born women)Trump is putting kids in cages at the border(use photo from Obama era detainment).Trumps detainment centers for illegal
Invaders are concentration camps.(Media complicit in mockingbird fashion airing these asinine statements) . This conflicting information
Creates an unease or dis ease in the brain.
Drinking or other drug use is used to cover up this uncomfortable contradiction.
This also leads to severe factoid intolerance.

I'm surprised that the statists haven't hired some "scientists" to declare all the "deplorables" who vote for Trump as mentally unsound.

Yes, by any material measurement life is improving. But our media is filled with predictions of imminent climate disaster and kids are flooded with indoctrination that the world is going to become unlivable. Sadly many of them believe it.

And then there's Trump Derangement Syndrome...

The cause is propaganda outlets, like Bloomberg.

One of my favorite Poe quote can easily be adjusted to show the show the fragile state of the contemporary snowflake generation. Unprepared by design, they cringe at realities unrelenting harshness.

POE
"The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow"

ADAPTION
"The mind, like a shattered mirror, multiplies my terrors"

The progressive left has worked for years to decrease the value of life from unborn infant to senior citizen and everyone in-between.
They so warped the sense of self-woprth that manyyour people have almost zero self-worth and any setback will push then over. The manner in which the older population is viewed also makes it easy for them to slide over the edge as well.
It is a shame but our society no longer values age and the accumulated wisbom of the older generation. A sad commentary on the USA and Western societies as a whole..

Medicare/Medicaid..alias: obobo careless system covers NOTHING! They say they do but they don't and soak the crap out of you.
Had to sign up when I started SS, otherwise you couldn't even get into the hospital if you needed to...think I am going to register as an illegal alien!
If you want your procedure you can keep your procedure... as long as you pay for it yourself!

I don't know how this could be true given television's Barney The Purple Dinosaur telling our kids, "I love you, you love me; we're a hap-py fam-i-ly...."

Well, in Postmodern society, if you truly believed you were Abraham Lincoln, the year was 1862, and you were President of the United States, you would be considered as sane and equal in every way as the next useful society worker.

I must live in a 'lollypop' world! Young and old are courteous, in their cars, opening doors (post office, grocery store), and stopping to give someone obviously in distress assistance. Our streets are a mess, the water is undrinkable, and the robot throws our trash containers in the street. But who cares? We voice our opinions twice monthly at City Council and School Board/College District meetings (and they do listen). A letter to the editor gets special attention.

All you have to do is read the speech of one of the dem candidates.

It is sufficient to send a fragile mind off the cliff.