Canada

Wait until they have to find a job to pay for their health insurance

Part of the reason is the failure of our school systems to teach the history of Canadian resistance to U.S. threats, incursions and trade sanctions.

No way.

They are susceptible because they use "products" (i.e. social media) that's been specifically engineered to manipulate your opinions and worldview. That's by design, and young minds are more easily corrupted by it.

There is also a growing number of extreme right-wing, "alpha male" influencers who are specifically targeting young males through social grooming and manipulation strategies.

When you've got elementary school teachers overhearing their 11-year-old students talk about people like the rapist and misogynist Andrew Tate, you can hardly blame a lack of history education on it.

Those who fail to (or refuse to) learn history are doomed to repeat it.

I'm not buying that older Canadians are any more informed about history, but putting that aside, maybe it's young Canadians self-interest. The article doesn't actually examine why they would want to join the US, but guesses at it being the consequence of "woke" policy. The pieces just aren't connected.

They may feel they have less to lose and more to potentially gain than older Canadians, who built up wealth and pensions in an economy that no longer exists. If they expect the country to offer worse pay, lifestyle, and services, disloyalty is not unreasonable. If a life in Canada means no home ownership, no healthcare or pensions in a few years, and that they won't be able to retire, that sounds a lot like the offer from the US. They're reasonably not sold on dying for Canadian oligarchs over American ones.

Kids are dumb and that makes them more likely to adopt the kinds of views educated people should know better than to adopt. For example in high school I very much supported right-wing libertarianism which lasted just until I got an actual job

They've always said the younger Canadian is the smarter Canadian.