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Michael Higgins: Of course young people are losing faith in democracy

Half of the under-30s crowd thinks a strong leader with no elections would be a good way to govern. It's not surprising given all they've been taught

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A vast number of young people brought up in the last decade and more of Liberal rule are now so disillusioned, dispirited and despondent that they would prefer a dictatorship rather than a democracy.

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The Liberals can take a fair amount of responsibility for leaving 18-to-29-year-olds so jaundiced, but educational leaders must also accept their role in failing to teach youngsters the importance of history.

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Magna Carta, the Canadian Bill of Rights, Jacques Cartier and Samuel de Champlain, the vital importance of two world wars, the horrors under Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong, why and how the parliamentary system has protected individual freedom — these and so many other matters of import are now either ignored or scorned.

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