I don't think it's a lazy cop out at all it's recognizing a complex issue that interweaves into the new realities of life for young adults.

What you stated is the lazy cop out, you're dismissing an entire problem space at the wave of a hand without critically thinking about it.

Everything is connected. An example would be heavy social media use being correlated to lower critical thinking capabilities, lower attention span, and more extreme political and emotional swings lead to a population being more manipulable and less cohesive.

Causing them to vote and act against their own interests at the behest of whoever has enough money to influence them though channels they "trust". Thus influencing a degrading social and financial situation.