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Young people don’t hate democracy, they hate capitalism
Scotland’s youth face a democratic crisis and the left have to present the answer, writes JOHNNIE HUNTER
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A PROMINENT study published towards the end of 2020 through Cambridge University made the stark discovery: “This is the first generation in living memory to have a global majority who are dissatisfied with the way democracy works while in their twenties and thirties.”

This has received significant coverage in parts of Scotland’s media and academia. 

The study found that “in almost every global region it is among 18 to 34-year-olds that satisfaction with democracy is in steepest decline.” 

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