Those who went OTD would have gone OTD anyway. There are also plenty of Chareidi kids who go OTD. In many cases, having no job skills, they turn to crime.
HaKatan,
In Rav Elchonon’s time, the term dati leumi did not exist. It was invented as the name of the new political party formed by the merger of Mizrahi and HaPoel haMizrahi in 1955. BTW, the leader of the Aguda in EY, Rav Y.Y. Levin, signed the Declaration of Independence and ran with both Mizrahi parties in the first Knesset elections as the United Religious Front. And yes, I disagree with those gedolim. There is a long list of gedolim who disagreed with them. As an aside, the Mir yeshiva went to Shanghai against Rav Chaim Ozer’s pesak. When asked about it years later, one of the rabbis quipped that daat torah had not yet been invented.
Tell me, what do your gedolim say about Internet usage?