POLI 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Baby Boomers, American Civil Liberties Union, Individualism
22 May 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
I. Views of Government
a. More republicans and more independents are seeing government as the enemy.
i. Democrats more likely to see government as a friend
ii. Changing view of electorate on government
iii. Why do I want to pay taxes to an institution that is the enemy?
b. Approe of haig a strog leader ho does’t hae to other ith ogress ad
elections
i. Non college graduate: 56% say very bad/bad idea, 44% say very good/good
ii. College Graduate: 72% say very bad/bad idea, 28% say very good/good
iii. This is a problem because it is going away from democracy
iv. Our government is meant to act slowly because it is meant to protect the
minority
II. Democratic Values
a. Equality
i. Everyone is equal
ii. What is equality in this country?
iii. Is it equal opportunity? Or is it equal outcome?
b. Freedom
i. What does this mean?
ii. Freedom of speech, to bear arms, association,
c. Individualism
i. All want our own lives
ii. Ca’t ifrige o soeoe else’s rights though
III. Views on free specch, press freedom and internet freedom
a. Regional media saying it is very important that ____ without state/gov censorship in our
country
i. US:71% for people say what they want
b. Government should be able to prevent people from saying offensive things to minority
i. Milliennials: 40% say yes.
ii. Gen X: 27%
iii. Baby boomer: 24%
iv. Silent: 12%
c. At general level, we do believe in freedom of speech.
i. But specifics, become different. Less clear and less supportive.
1. Example: Collin Coppernick
2. KKK and white supremacists
a. ACLU came to their rescue with charlotesville
b. If you give gov power to pick winners and losers, you become
more authoritarian
IV. The citizen
a. Assumptions around the citizen
i. Citizens influence leaders
1. But is it the other way around sometimes?
ii. Citizens have the capacity to hold government accountable
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Document Summary
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