In 1995, one out of every sixteen Americans was open to the idea of military rule in our country, which I find to be a shockingly high number. In 2014, one in six Americans felt that way. Even harder to believe, the numbers are worse for young people. According to Yascha Mounk, a lecturer on government at Harvard, nearly a quarter of millennials think democracy is a “bad” or “very bad” way of running the country. In 2011, almost half said they thought that a political system with a strong leader who did not have to bother with Congress or elections was a “fairly good” or “very good” idea.
