Crisis of Confidence
The following post is by Family Council staff member Christa Adams.
In 1979 Jimmy Carter spoke of the “Crisis of Confidence.” People had lost faith in the government, in their ability to change things and believed that the next five years would not be better than the previous five years. As he went on I wondered how this speech could have been from over three decades ago, because it felt like he was talking directly to me and my generation. As I watched this video of Carter speaking about low voter turnouts, I thought of the status updates that I see showing up Facebook calling young people to not vote and pictures proudly proclaiming, “Nobody for President!”