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The Influence of POLITICAL EVENTS on IDEOLOGY [AP Gov Review_ Unit 4 Topic 4 (4_4)]
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well hey there and welcome back to himler history now we've been going through unit four of the AP Government curriculum and in this video we're going to talk about how important events can change or at least affect your political beliefs so if you're ready to get them brain cows milked then let's get to it so in this video here's what we're trying to do explain how cultural factors influence political attitudes and socialization so in the last couple of videos we've been talking about a phenomenon called political socialization which is the process by which we come to hold our political beliefs and there are a lot of factors that go into how we form those beliefs from our family of origin to what we're taught in school into what generation we belong and now we just need to add one more factor to the pot of political socialization and once we do then baby we got a stew going so the factor I'm talking about is what the AP overlords call political events and basically what they mean by that is any event that is deemed significant in the life of our nation and depending on how significant that event is it can have a disproportionate effect on our political beliefs so let me give you some examples and again everything I'm saying here is a generalization there are of course exceptions so the silent generation who if you remember were born roughly in the 1920s up through 19 45 spent their formative years struggling through the Great Depression job loss was rampant and poverty became more and more common in 1932 their parents elected Franklin D Roosevelt as president and Roosevelt expanded the federal government in ways that would make George Washington poop his pantaloons but he did this to alleviate the suffering of Americans and his new deal program created jobs for people out of work and created an economic Safety Net in the form of Social Security now whether you agree with those policies or not is not the point the point is the silent generation grew up in the midst of unimaginable hardship and they witnessed the growth of the federal government in order to step in and help so that major event combined with the government's performance in World War II LED this generation to trust the government to intervene for their safety and well-being and that in turn influenced how they voted now the Baby Boomers lived through the Vietnam War and that trust in government was sarily flushed down the toilet after the release of the Pentagon papers which we talked about in unit 3 it was made clear that the government had been lying about the nature and progress of the war in fact they also witnessed Richard Nixon resign his presidency because he was involved in a plot an illegal plot to get reelected so by the election of 1980 Boomers responded to these events with a large scale migration from the Democratic party to the Republican party and why well we could hardly explain it better than the man who won the presidency in that year Ronald Reagan in responding to the problem of the economic crisis that had laid the nation low he said in this present crisis government is not the solution to our problem government is the problem so for all those Boomers who had seen firsthand the problem the government caused during the events of Vietnam a candidate who said such a thing was able to win a majority of their votes and why because events influence our voting behavior then if we think about Millennials the defining event for that generation was the terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001 in the months following that event there was a profound unification throughout the nation however once the dust settled Millennials began to articulate how this event didn't just come out of nowhere as if we Americans were just minding our own business and these terrorists came and attacked us unprovoked rather Millennials were able to see that our world is more connected than ever before and 9/11 was a result at least partially of American over intervention in the Middle East for decades so in response to this event Millennials have a keen sense of foreign policy and how America interacts not just with itself but with the wider world and so that event led them to vote for candidates who Champion cooperation and bridge building with foreign Nations rather than candidates who ran on a platform of aggressive foreign policy so again major events have a way of shaping how we form our political beliefs and ultimately how we end up voting now the last thing I'm going to say in all these examples that I've given I've shown you how an event has influenced people to vote for one party or another but again those are just examples there were plenty of people who opposed the New Deal and plenty who grew more devoted to the cause of aggressive American intervention throughout the world after 9/11 so I'm not suggesting that these political events will necessarily push folks to vote one way or the other only that these major events will likely have a lasting effect on how people are politically socialized whichever way they end up voting okay thanks for watching click right here and gra review packet which is going to help you get an A in your class and a five on your exam in May and if this video helped you and you want me to keep making them then you can let me know that by subscribing and you know me I shall oblige I'm l
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