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Americans of all stripes agree children need A LOT more education on civics: poll

June 20, 2026 | | Print Article

A majority of Americans of all stripes agree that American children need more education — a lot more, in fact — on civics and government.

A new NBC News poll of 3,000 adults sponsored by More Perfect found that 80 percent of Americans believe “the United States puts too little emphasis on civic education, or the teaching of government and democracy.”

A smaller 51 percent majority believes “the country’s focus on civic education is much too little.”

Here’s the kicker, via NBC: “This sentiment cuts across ideological and generational lines: 87% of progressives and 84% of MAGA Republicans say there is too little educational focus on civics.”

Incidentally, civic education is exactly what Trump administration official Stephen Miller promised last year when asked about the closing of the Department of Education:

“Children will be taught to love America. Children will be taught to be patriots. Children will be taught civic values for schools that want federal taxpayer funding,” Miller proudly stated in the clip above.

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“So as we close the Department of Education and we provide funding to states, we are going to make sure that these funds are not being used to promote communist ideology,” he continued. “For any nation to be successful, it cannot teach its children to hate themselves and to hate their country.”

NBC News’ poll follows a separate one from the American Enterprise Institute that found that Gen Z Americans aren’t as dumb as originally thought.

“While its results did reflect a generational divide—baby boomers were much friendlier to the Founding than Gen Z—73 percent of the younger generation still agreed that ‘the founders deserve respect…for how they set up the United States,'” according to Reason magazine, which reviewed the poll.

A whopping 74 of Gen Z respondents likewise agreed that “studying the political principles of the founding fathers can help inform our decisions today.”

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However, these numbers come at a time when self-identified liberals appear to hate almost everything about this country.

A recent CNN survey/poll found that only 29 percent of Democrats are extremely proud to be an American, as compared to a whopping 90 percent of Republicans.

The poll similarly found that only 24 percent of Democrats view celebrating America as a July 4 priority, versus 65 percent of Republicans.

Learn more about the poll results below:

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Also, the liberal media’s behavior seems to almost contradict the polls that show Democrats care about civics and government.

“In Florida, a recently devised A.P. U.S. History alternative, which casts the Founding and its Enlightenment-influenced classical liberalism in a rosier light, has been characterized by the media as an ‘anti-woke’ reaction and a specifically ‘conservative’ reform,” according to Reason.

This is the problem. Although polls show liberals/Democrats care about civics and government and even patriotism, their actions and rhetoric betray them.

Take former President Barack Obama, who used his speech at the opening of his presidential center this week to trash the Founding Fathers:

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