We didn’t have nearly as much of this stuff years ago in the USA. We can all say it was due to this or that, but in the end much of our country changed when the politicians and bankers colluded to send our jobs to China, and to import poverty from south of the border and elsewhere. We became a much less affluent nation for most.
They connived in a way to gradually change the USA culture to the 3rd world it is becoming, and no citizen had a chance to vote on it. Instead we pay the price. Hxll it would not have made any difference because neither Party really works for Joe and Jane average. They work for the puppet string pullers and special interests that bribe them with money to get reelected and divide us. Their only concern is getting reelected not the USA.
God bless these kids and that they be safely found.
We need a revolution but lack the will.
“We didn’t have nearly as much of this stuff years ago in the USA.”
We had tons of this stuff in the 70’s and 80’s. Ever hear of Adam Walsh?
There used to be a stronger sense of civic engagement, and of using good judgment to solve one’s problems and sometimes to help others with theirs... even the sort that people nowadays would call vigilantism.