“These young people have nothing to live for and are fabricating a cause to die for (though they’d rather not).”
I assume ‘young people’ refers to the mobs that are Burning, Looting and Murdering their way across the country. If they truly understood that their ‘leaders’ expect some of them to die for the cause, I doubt that they would be so enthralled with the ‘movement’. So the solution is as obvious as it is harsh: when the bodies of several hundred of these ‘protesters’ are laid out on medical examiners tables across the country, the ‘movement’ will lose momentum very quickly.
None of them expect to die for it; they are just making up a cause because the war in Vietnam is over and the whale population seems to be OK. They are on the hunt for the next replacement for religion, and this is the “cause du jour”.