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If We Don’t Teach Liberty to the Next Generation, We’ll Lose It

As America begins its next 250 years, conservatives face a challenge that cannot be solved by winning the upcoming election cycle alone.

We must win the next generation.

For decades, conservatives have rightly fought to reduce taxes, restrain government, protect constitutional liberties, and defend free markets. Those battles remain essential. But they will ultimately prove unsustainable if young Americans no longer understand why these principles matter in the first place.

Principles do not sustain themselves. Every generation must be taught the moral, economic, and civic foundations of freedom. If that education fails, liberty itself eventually fades away.

The warning signs are already impossible to ignore.

A new Wall Street Journal-NORC poll published July 8 found that confidence in both capitalism and democracy has eroded dramatically. Fewer than half of Americans now believe capitalism is working well, down from 60% a decade ago. More than half say democracy is functioning poorly or not at all, and just 35% said that patriotism is very important to them personally, down from more than 60% in 2019.

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Equally troubling are the findings from a recent Cato Institute survey, which revealed that an astonishing 46% of Americans do not know what the nation’s 250th birthday commemorates.

Among Generation Z, 61% could not identify the adoption of the Declaration of Independence as the event being celebrated. Majorities could not explain the purpose of the Constitution,........

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