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2018-06-30 Home Front: Culture Wars

New Poll Shows Millennials Don't Value Democracy

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-06-30 00:25|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 It’s unfortunate that as teenagers, their civics lessons, history assignments, and even family involvement haven’t taught them that the many things they value most are a product of living in a free market system that values the voice of the people.

But not unexpectedly.

Posted by Bobby 2018-06-30 09:48|| 2018-06-30 09:48|| Front Page Top

#2 I guess if you don't believe in democracy it's a no-brainer to abstain from voting.

Posted by M. Murcek 2018-06-30 11:11|| 2018-06-30 11:11|| Front Page Top

#3 There is good reason to fear for the future of democracy in this country. Moneyed interests are more often than not successful in buying elections and the MSM goes merrily along without asking the questions that need to be asked. Trump is a moneyed interest in his own right but he's not one of the elites and their attempted coup is a result. If it had succeeded, and it still might, we could witness a new Dark Ages.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2018-06-30 11:15|| 2018-06-30 11:15|| Front Page Top

#4 Need to really push the Peace Corps so these kids can see the third world with their own eyes and realize that it's not the west making them poor. Venezuela could use a lot of millennial helping out right now, lets send anyone who claims to be a socialist so they can get a taste before they try to transform the US into their fantasy image.

Posted by ruprecht 2018-06-30 11:30|| 2018-06-30 11:30|| Front Page Top

#5 " those philosophies rarely work out in government form very well"

Should read

those philosophies NEVER work out in government form very well

Posted by newc 2018-06-30 14:19|| 2018-06-30 14:19|| Front Page Top

#6 One told me he was a Socialist, couldn't articulate what a Socialist was, but he sure was one. *Sigh*

Posted by magpie 2018-06-30 14:44|| 2018-06-30 14:44|| Front Page Top

#7 Those who know are far more dangerous

Posted by European Conservative 2018-06-30 14:48|| 2018-06-30 14:48|| Front Page Top

#8 Nobody should want democracy. That word is used wrong all the freaking time. Democracy is mob rule. We are not a democracy. We are a representative republic. Big difference.

Posted by Silentbrick 2018-06-30 14:56|| 2018-06-30 14:56|| Front Page Top

#9 True enough, #8, but those of us who point out we live in a republic just come off like grammar ladies to the ignorant hordes. I don't even bother.

Posted by M. Murcek 2018-06-30 16:16|| 2018-06-30 16:16|| Front Page Top

#10 just ask em when they lasted voted on a bill

Posted by Frank G 2018-06-30 16:34|| 2018-06-30 16:34|| Front Page Top

#11 Thank you, Silentbrick. The hijacking of language is one of the commies’ most successful operations.

Posted by Lowspark 2018-06-30 17:18|| 2018-06-30 17:18|| Front Page Top

#12 Find out which ones don't value democracy and don't ever permit them to vote.

Can't imagine they'd have a problem with that.

Posted by charger 2018-06-30 19:02|| 2018-06-30 19:02|| Front Page Top

#13 A tag I used: "Remember that a Lynch Mob is very, very democratic. If the "majority" want a hanging they get it, laws be damned."

Posted by magpie 2018-06-30 19:12|| 2018-06-30 19:12|| Front Page Top

#14 Weare a representative republic.

We're a oligarchy of special interests and tribes. When you have a handful of people sit for life dictating what they believe rather than what the words say, you don't even have a republic.

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-06-30 19:30|| 2018-06-30 19:30|| Front Page Top

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