Is hysteria for political purposes destroying our children's future?

 CAN THE INCREASE IN DRUG USE, SUICIDE AND DEPRESSION BE LINKED TO POLITICAL MESSAGING

CAN CONTINUOUS MESSAGING OF CLIMATE CHANGE, PANDEMICS AND WAR DESTROY OUR CHILDREN'S VIEW OF THEIR FUTURE

No other time in our history can compare to the present bombardment of political messaging that is piled on our children, all in an attempt to influence them for future political purposes. While we sometimes had civil defense drills in school, they were maybe several time a year. Education stayed out of philosophical debates about the controversial political arguments and the nightly news was limited to no more than 1 hour. Now the bombardment is continuous from social media, television and the entertainment media. It is also piled on in their schools whether outright or subtle.

This messaging about things that should be left for adults is now begun in kindergarten and grade school, it is relentless and non stopping. While children should be focusing on learning things that will be a positive influence on their decision making for their future, it is now a lot of of fear messaging to indoctrinate them and hopefully be used to influence their parents at home. This should be unacceptable, as it seems to be ingraining a negative view of their future and overwhelming them with messaging that they actually have little hope of a normal future.

Why consider their future when it is now likely to be non existent or dismal at best. Then there is the stress laid on them that they need to make decisions that will save the planet, protect other family members or other messaging that they really have no power or capacity to change. All of this, in the all out attempt to influence out children with political messaging.

Is it any wonder they are now experiencing increased rates of depression, suicide and attempting to escape this negative environment through drug use. 

One of the most important functions of any society is to protect children from damage from negative experiences that they are subjected to before they are mentally capable of understanding these issues.

While parents can help to keep them focused on what they need to focus on for their age, society now has a greater access to their minds than ever before. Only a conscious, organized and focused campaign to keep the political fear mongering out of the schools and out of forums that are for children will lessen the overwhelming messaging that can destroy their hope of a bright future.