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Richard Neal: “You can't expect young people to love democracy if they…”

Featuring: Richard Neal, Democratic | U.S. House Massachusetts, 1st Congressional District

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Published | Video Starts at 04:38

There was a student group in Lenox over the weekend in which gold star families assembled for a really essential acknowledgement of this beautiful monument outside of the town hall. But there were a group of students there called Project 351. 351. And You can't expect young people to love democracy if they don't know anything about it. Absolutely. And we're certainly a new people by world history standards. We're still relatively young experiment in democracy, but right now, the longest democracy. Absolutely, absolutely. Let's switch gears a little bit. (04:38–04:44)

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