LIZ PEEK: Angry, affluent and adrift — what's driving some young Americans to violence |
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LIZ PEEK: Angry, affluent and adrift — what's driving some young Americans to violence
Some blame young people’s woes on social media, which is undoubtedly part of the problem. But they themselves are also to blame
By Liz Peek Fox News
Published April 28, 2026 5:00am EDT
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It’s 2026, and America’s youth are not ok.
Young people in the U.S. are angry and miserable, surveys show, despite living in the most prosperous nation on earth. They are likely to stay that way. They hate capitalism, despair about climate change and social justice, have devalued the things that matter most like family and religion and instead put their faith in false prophets like Zohran Mamdani.
Oddly it is our privileged elites — highly educated, meaning highly indoctrinated by our leftist schools, that are the most rudderless and unhappy.
The result is people like Cole Allen, 31-year-old graduate of prestigious Caltech university, who allegedly decided to shoot Trump administration officials attending the White House Correspondents Dinner this past weekend. Or Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old accused of killing Charlie Kirk, or Thomas Matthew Crooks, the 20-year-old who shot and wounded President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania. Or Colt Gray, Phoenix Ikner or Robin Westman, all three under the age of 25 and accused of deadly school shootings.
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These are just a few names; there are plenty more. What do they have........