{"id":1088218,"date":"2021-12-06T00:43:30","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T05:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1088218"},"modified":"2021-12-06T00:43:32","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T05:43:32","slug":"poll-majority-of-young-americans-believe-democracy-is-in-trouble-or-failing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-majority-of-young-americans-believe-democracy-is-in-trouble-or-failing\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Majority of Young Americans Believe Democracy Is &#039;in Trouble&#039; or &#039;Failing&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpoll-majority-of-young-americans-believe-democracy-is-in-trouble-or-failing%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1088218&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">More than half of young Americans \u2014 52 percent \u2014 believe U.S. democracy is \u201cin trouble\u201d or \u201cfailing,\u201d according to a poll <a href=\"https:\/\/iop.harvard.edu\/youth-poll\/fall-2021-harvard-youth-poll\">released<\/a> this week from the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School.<\/p>\n<p>The poll, which surveyed young people between the ages of 18 to 29, found that 39 percent believe democracy is \u201cin trouble,\u201d and 13 percent \u201cwent as far as to declare the nation a \u2018failed democracy.&#8217;\u201d Only seven percent of young Americans view the United States as a \u201chealthy democracy,\u201d and 27 percent think the country has a \u201csomewhat functioning democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Along party lines, Republicans are less hopeful than Democrats about the state of the nation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile Democrats are divided (44% healthy\/somewhat functioning and 45% in trouble\/failed) about the health of our democracy, 70% of Republicans believe that we are either a democracy in trouble (47%) or failed (23%). A majority (51%) of independent and unaffiliated young Americans also say we are in trouble or failed,\u201d according to the poll report.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18979250\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"37\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/virus-outbreak-biden-president-joe-biden-speaks-south-court-auditorium-white-house-campus-wednesday.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18979250\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/virus-outbreak-biden-president-joe-biden-speaks-south-court-auditorium-white-house-campus-wednesday.png\" alt=\"President Joe Biden speaks in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021, in Washington. Biden is set to kick of more urgent campaign for Americans to get COVID-19 booster shots on Dec. 2, as he unveils a his winter plans to combat the coronavirus. (AP Photo\/Evan Vucci)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Joe Biden speaks in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo\/Evan Vucci)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Nearly half \u2014 46 percent \u2014 of young Republicans also believe the chances of the second civil war are at 50 percent or higher \u201ccompared to 32 percent of Democrats, and 38 percent of independents and unaffiliated voters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSimilar patterns hold for those who think secession is likely. Overall, 25% rate the chances at 50% or greater,\u201d the report states.<\/p>\n<p>However, young Americans, 2-to-1, value compromise over confrontation. A plurality of every major subgroup prefers \u201celected officials meet in the middle \u2014 at the expense of my preferred policy priorities,\u201d compared to \u201celected officials pursue my preferred policy priorities \u2014 at the expense of compromise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Young Americans overall have a less patriotic view of the United States, with Democrats and Republicans at opposite ends. According to the report, half of young Americans think there are \u201cother nations as great or greater than America.\u201d Less than a third of young Americans \u2014 31 percent \u2014 believe America is the greatest country, and 18 percent say they do not know.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe views of Democrats and Republicans are inverted with 21% of Democrats saying America is the greatest country and 64% saying other nations are as great or greater; 62% of Republicans believe that America is the greatest with 24% saying other nations are as great or greater,\u201d according to the poll.<\/p>\n<p>The poll was organized by the Harvard Public Opinion Project and conducted between October 26 through November 8, 2021, with a margin of error of&nbsp;+\/- 3.08 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than half of young Americans \u2014 52 percent \u2014 believe U.S. democracy is \u201cin trouble\u201d or \u201cfailing,\u201d according to a poll released this week from the Institute of Politics &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1088218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1088218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1088218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1088218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1088218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}