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This Fourth of July, amid the coronavirus pandemic and nationwide Black Lives Matter protests, American patriotism has fallen to its lowest point in nearly 20 years. According to a new poll, less than half of Americans are "extremely proud" to be American.
According to Gallup, pride in the U.S. is the lowest it's been since the analytics company first measured it in 2001. The survey shows 70% of U.S. adults are proud to be Americans in the new poll, but just 45% said they are extremely proud.
While most people still say they are proud to be Americans, this marks the second straight year that the number of extremely proud Americans fell below the majority level. Results held relatively steady for years between 81% and 92% before sharply falling in 2017 to 75% during President Trump's first year in office.
Democrats' pride consistently measures far lower than that of Republicans, Gallup reports.
Just 22% of Democrats say they are extremely proud to be an American a 10-point decrease from 2019 and half of what it was before Mr. Trump was elected. However, 76% of Republicans and 41% of Independents say they are extremely proud.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/american-pride-falls-record-low-152516328.html
Jeebo
(2,025 posts)The article doesn't say. For the past three and a half years, I have been, for the first time in my life, embarrassed to be an American, and ashamed of my country. The United States of America has now become an international pariah. That's why the European Union won't let us in. That's what that loathsome orange con man in the White House has done to us. I can't wait for Nov. 3. I wish we could vote now, today.
-- Ron
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)That said, the 76% of Republicans (@24% of voters) feeling proud is typical RW lie. Their leaders tell them to say that. Yesterday Trump recited a resentful list of ways the world (characterized as "radical Democrats" ) thinks badly of them. And it wasn't news to them.
They know they're a minority at war with most Americans and can't win national elections honestly. They hate the liberal values of individualism and egalitarianism our nation was founded on because the equality and freedom are for all Americans, not mostly them. They're are having a major meltdown over the reality that someday whites will ONLY be slightly more numerous than every other race put together. They want to destroy our democracy out of spite and rejection and impose their beliefs on the America they despise.
They've been shouting their pride and patriotism the entire time they've been marching off the cliff.
As for the Democrats, our nation reflects 250 years of liberal values that are our legacy to the world, and many big advances in the long struggle for equality have been made by us in our lifetimes as it speeds up.
Too many of those who don't even know what they should be proud of probably helped elect Trump and have a great deal to be ashamed of and a great deal to undo.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)delivered a smashing blow to the mouth of American Fascism (Trumpism).