Comment by hackuser

Particularly chilling are the responses to the question of how essential it is to live in a democracy. They graph the answers by the decade in which the respondents were born:

* U.S.: 1930s: 75%, 1980s: ~30%, with a straight line between them.

* U.K.: 58 - 30% (with a jagged line)

(See the graphs in the article for more.)