[jyo19]

Public schools were not yet fully leftist indoctrination centers in 2010. They are now. The answer is to 100% boycott government-run schools. It’s sad but true, but it’s the only way.

[thoughtomator]

We’re just coming out of a decade-long stretch of some of the worst economic conditions ever in the US, and the previous decade wasn’t much better. The things that older Americans consider exceptional about the country didn’t happen for younger ones. The young got financial bubbles and identity politics, not a land of capitalism and opportunity.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“It’s troubling to think that now 4 out of 10 young Americans do not see their nation as exceptional and the greatest in the world.”

Well, let’s see...Public Schools as Indoctrination Stations for the FATHERLESS children of the past generations?

Mission Accomplished! *SPIT*

[Diana in Wisconsin]

P.S. I DO like Star Parker! :)

[Tax-chick]

only 37 percent of Americans said they believed so when asked, "When children today grow up, will they be better off financially than their parents?"

Only recently, in human history, did the concept arise that each generation would be "better off financially" than the previous one. The idea that, if this happened once or twice, it should continue for eternity never had any statistical probability. I figure that some of my children have the potential to out-earn their father, and some don't. That's just reality.

Stepping from the general to the particular, one thing that happens is that children may have different values from their parents, and may not care about exceeding their parents' wealth. Beyond a median level of comfort, increases in income/wealth do not correlate with happier lives. Wealth is never sufficient for life satisfaction: there is always someone with more.

[Robert DeLong]

Maybe there is a sense creeping into our youth that America is no longer the land of opportunity that it once was.

And it will only get worse as leftist take over more & more.

[zeestephen]

Re: “It's troubling to think that now 4 out of 10 young Americans do not see their nation as exceptional and the greatest in the world.”

No.

It's not troubling. It's completely predictable.

Young white voters consistently vote 50%-55% for the Republican Party.

Unfortunately, more than half of the Americans who turn 18 this year are non-white, and they vote 80% for the Democrat Party.

I will estimate that about half the people on this thread support massive LEGAL immigration.

This is exactly what happens when you deliberately import 20 million Third World socialists.