A Result of Public School and University Indoctrination

Multiple polls in the past few years—from Gallup to Pew to Axios—have shown that for younger Americans, socialism is viewed roughly as favorably, and in some cases more favorably, than capitalism. How can you blame them? Their classrooms are inundated with whitewashed history about socialists and communists and full of anti-American views that pain our system, including our capitalist economic system, as predatory. Moreover, poll after poll shows that young people in the Untied States express far more skeptical views of America’s global position than previous generations did; to a great many, other countries are better than the United States. A “Harvard Youth Poll” from December 2021 found that only 31 percent of young Americans (ages eighteen to twenty-nine) believe “America is the greatest country in the world.” Fully half of young Americans believe that there are “other nations as great or greater than America.” Worse, America’s youngest generation has twice the number of avowed atheists—with young people rejecting religious faith in record numbers.

Battle For the American Mind, by Pete Hegseth with David Goodwin, pg.34