Pollster John Zogby seems skeptical that “today’s youth have been virtually brainwashed by marketers, advertisers, and a mushy-headed professoriate.” Nor is he particularly concerned that so many 18-to-29-year-olds view themselves as citizens of the world, and not of any specific nation, and that they insouciantly embrace Obama’s presidential candidacy. Thus he gives William Bennett only:

half a point when he laments that relentless sensitivity training and political correctness have robbed students of their critical faculties and inquisitive spirits, instilling instead a kind of “we’re–all-equal” liberalism.

Maybe in the end the majority of the new generation comprehend, and will adhere to and defend, American values. On the other hand, maybe their miseducation and consumerism have already led then past a tipping point that bodes ill for this nation.