In many cases, education and better jobs might help. As an example, a lot of the RR people who listen to this weird radio stuff and read the online equivalents are poorly educated, often did not finish HS or went to very bizarre religiously inclined schools. Some are middle class through commendably having started their own businesses, but they are facing hard times now and frightened. Most seem to be very poor and perennially anxious, and often have some illness in the family.

They see themselves as a special class of people, the saved - everybody else has got it wrong - and everything they see, hear, read is interpreted as a sign of the nearness of the Rapture. Yet they are frequently depressed, sad, not getting along with spouses, children, family.

I started, a couple years ago, amused by their delusions, and ended by feeling profoundly sorry about the continued hardship and fear they seem to bring on themselves.