Sixty-one percent of Gen Z (18 to 29 year olds) did not know what America's 250th anniversary commemorated. That number is 46% for all adults. Those are a small sliver of responses from a Cato Institute poll conducted in collaboration with Morning Consult of 2,253 Americans ahead of July 4th & America's 250th anniversary. The poll was released on July 2.
I have never seen clearer statistics that show how perilous our future is - since young people know nothing about the country they can be told anything & they very well may believe it.
More knowledgeable respondents (57%) to the poll questions believe the U.S. has moved away from its founding principles (you think) & 56% worry the country could lose its freedom in the next 50 years.
For the rest of us who want to continue the semiquincentennial celebration of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 click on this series of Hillsdale College videos that tells the story of America starting with how a rag-tag army defeated the British Empire. Episodes include "The Shot Heard Round The World," "The Battle Of Bunker Hill," "Crossing The Delaware," "The Second Continental Congress," & "George Washington." There are 19 videos in all, organized so you can watch them in any order or selectively.
The most important point in bringing the results of the Cato poll & the Hillsdale videos together is that a great number of Americans need to learn from the videos so that the worry about America losing its freedom before the tricentennial doesn't occur.
Hillsdale College encourages passing the videos on. And so do I.
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