Go back a little farther to the Great Society programs that ruined families by facilitating unwed motherhood. This young man ay not have needed “salvaging” if he had grown up with a married mother and father.
Economics, politics and society in general are all interrelated. My feeling about are if we had kept all of our manufacturing base and those millions of good paying blue collar low skill jobs in the USA we would not be having the dire social and financial issue that we face.