Posted on 07/06/2025 4:58:14 AM PDT by MtnClimber
It’s a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
The Black Lives Matter hashtag and slogan was developed in 2013 in reaction to the (lawful self-defense) shooting of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman. The following year, 2014, the organization was formalized by self-avowed “trained Marxists” after the (lawful) police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo.
Those two shootings falsely were portrayed as racially motivated, while the facts (which we covered in exhaustive detail at the time) proved otherwise. Nonetheless the narrative was set and hating America and being American was necessary to be accepted into Democrat spaces. Even Bernie was not spared the wrath of BLM activists.
The formation of Black Lives Matter as an organized movement led to over a decade of non-stop virtue-signaling activism deriding the U.S. as systemically racist and worthy of deconstruction. It all culminated in the post-George Floyd riots and “anti-racism” activism whose bubble finally appears to have burst.
But not before severe damage was done to the nation, particularly Democrat pride in being American.
In fact, 2013-2014 is when Democrats’ pride in being American fell off a cliff and never recovered, as a just-released Gallup survey shows:
A record-low 58% of U.S. adults say they are “extremely” (41%) or “very” (17%) proud to be an American, down nine percentage points from last year and five points below the prior low from 2020. The 41% who are “extremely proud” is not statistically different from prior lows of 38% in 2022 and 39% in 2023, indicating most of the change this year is attributable to a decline in the percentage who are “very proud.” ….
Democrats are mostly responsible for the drop in U.S. pride this year, with 36% saying they are extremely or very proud, down from 62% a year ago. This is only the second time Democrats’ pride has fallen below the majority level, along with a 42% reading in 2020, the last year of the first Trump administration. That poll was conducted during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic and shortly after the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers.
Political independents’ pride has also reached a low point, with 53% expressing a great deal of pride, down seven points from last year, which had been the previous low for this group. Independents’ pride has been declining since the early 2000s, dropping below 80% for the first time in 2005, then below 70% in 2019 and below 60% this year.
Republicans’ level of national pride has been much steadier, typically registering above 90%, including 92% this year, up from 85% in 2024. The only years in which fewer than nine in 10 Republicans were proud were 2016 and 2020 through 2024. All but 2020 were when a Democratic president was in office.
It’s pretty easy to see the inflection point in Democrat (lack of) pride occuring in 2013-2014, and never recovering. Independents also showed a decline but not as steep or severe:
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Coincidence?
Correlation does not equal causation?
Sure. Don’t believe your own eyes or memories.
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It is a marxist tactic.
It was the joy. Too much joy.
“Too much joy” — 😀love it!
Fat black chicks are angry. Who knew?
I feel like the country has somehow been “fundamentally transformed”.
That was the Obama community organizer plan.
The inverse boy-scout rule: Leave the place worse off than you found it and don’t mess it up too early in your administration.
A foreign born Marxist , racist was President.
THEY. CAN. LEAVE.
Newsmax interviewed people on the street last week asking if they’re proud to be Americans. One mouthy bitchy black lady, all decked out in gold, diamonds, and upscale clothing, said no. She isn’t proud to be an American.
Interviewer: Where would you rather live?
Lady: Africa.
There was an invisible bubble callout over the interviewer’s head: “Yet here you are.”
Mr “fundamental change” Obama and his angry wife are what happened. Before then democrats at least tried to hide the fact that they were communist America haters, or at least didn’t gloat about it openly-
after Obama took office, they learned that they could get away with being blatantly antiamerican, anti Jewish, and capitalist (even though many of their ilk were extreme capitalists), and they learned that the press would back them up and protect them and that all the REAL power in the nation was democrat owned and operated, in social media, lawyers, judges, po,ice, fbi, n3ews media etc etc etc.
The left learned that no matter how outrageous the claims, they could get away with it because they held all the power. That is when lgbtq really took off, as did all the idiotic gender nonsense- they learned what Theodore Dalrymple learned:
Theodore Dalrymple———
“In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that
the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not
to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to
reality the better.
When people are forced to remain silent when they
are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced
to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense
of probity. To assent to obvious lies is...in some small way to become
evil oneself.
One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even
destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think
if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is
intended to.”
Written by Theodore Dalrymple
Would loved it if the interviewer told her “talk is cheap. Why are you still here then?”
Obama’s transformation of America on display. The First Wookie said that she was proud to be an American for the first time. The fools who thought that voting for Obama would prove that America was not racist were wrong, wrong, wrong.
I guess it shows we’re winning when they have to glom onto every criminal killed by a white guy, however inadvertently. I hope there comes a day when they realize how much evil they’ve let loose in the world & are ready to repent of it.
barack hussein soetoro
I am soooooo tired of the racist blacks and their racist supporters. Caucasians should be demanding reparations from these reprobates and parasites. Caucasians are the true oppressed minority making up only about 8% of the racial distribution of the world’s population.
I was waiting for that!! He actually didn’t need to. The path of the interview made that unstated, but perfectly clear.
The woman was such a sourpuss. If she had been obviously in a less-than-positive financial position, MAYBE it could make a little sense. But she clearly was well to do, and mad as hell.
Most SANE people make conscious decisions to change their circumstances if they’re in intolerable positions. Trust me; she’s not going anywhere — not trading Manhattan for a mud hut in Africa.
Democrats: Hating America is what we do!
Woodrow Wilson. Not BLM.
Thanks for the post; the Dalrymple quote. The lie. Solzhenitsyn wrote about it many times. If you do not challenge the lie it will enslave you. If you do not expose the liar, they will destroy you. It is the weapon used most often by the criminal.
As a manager of new car dealerships for 35 years, black women in general are either the sweetest people you ever met or the nastiest customers you’ll ever deal with. There is no middle.
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