A lackluster opinion piece that is attempting to disguise as an essay.
The thesis of the article [0] is unsupported by any of its content.
Statistics for the number of friends people have are adjacent to statistics about suicides, implying a causal connection, but no statistics about the number of friends that suicide victims have are presented.
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>The lack of stable families has contributed to the widespread mistrust of others and lack of social relationships among young people. It has, I believe, given rise to a sense of nihilism even in an era of relative material abundance, which has characterized some of the violent upheavals.
At least that one is obviously just an opinion piece. I donno how they arrived at the conclusion that having a stable family made him conservative, but that's his business and that's fine. I'm pretty sure both sides of the aisle are aware of the value of a stable family.
Your point is well made in David Bahnsen's book, Crisis of Responsibility, where he cites multiple studies indicating that higher education and income levels correlate with stable families on the right or left of the political spectrum. I assume that would also hold true for libertarian/independent/3rd party types as well.
The thesis of the article [0] is unsupported by any of its content.
Statistics for the number of friends people have are adjacent to statistics about suicides, implying a causal connection, but no statistics about the number of friends that suicide victims have are presented.
[0] - >The lack of stable families has contributed to the widespread mistrust of others and lack of social relationships among young people. It has, I believe, given rise to a sense of nihilism even in an era of relative material abundance, which has characterized some of the violent upheavals.