Poll: Young people in their teens, the voters of tomorrow, have no faith in democratic institutions

Quote:

“In the United States … recent public opinion polls have revealed that an actual majority of young people in their teens, the voters of tomorrow, have no faith in democratic institutions, see no objection to the censorship of unpopular ideas, do not believe that government of the people by the people is possible and would be perfectl6y content, if they can continue to live in the style to which the boom has accustomed them, to be ruled, from above, by an oligarchy of assorted experts. That so many of the well-fed television-watchers in the world’s most powerful democracy should be so completely indifferent to the idea of self-government, so blankly uninterested in freedom of thought and the right to dissent, is distressing, but not too surprising.”

Distressing indeed, but think of it this way. Those words written in 1958 by Aldous Huxley in his Brave New World Revisited. The teenagers he was talking about are now in their 60’s and 70s.