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.
We really need a like button in the next upgrade to FR.
Yep. Marxists finally accepted that they could not foment a class war to topple the government, and decided to go for a race war instead.
Can the marxist tactic be used against the marxist? If not, why not? Is it because so many of us who are comfortable refuse to participate in the uncomfortableness of a riot of destruction in the streets of America? Probably!!
The marxist are allowed to vent regularly without arrest. Until we have the right officials in place to crack skulls when they vent, nothing will change while our liberties erode.
I know more white people that have visited Africa then black people.They cling to Africa as a homeland but most never bother to visit. Now Michigan is their homeland.
Dems never had pride in America. Any decrease around that time would be due to the Race-Baiter in Chief.
"We are now five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America"
That observation doesn’t just go for customers......in my experience working around ‘em for decades it’s their general behavior......also, some I’ve been around portray themselves as calm and level-headed until they get triggered by some inconsequential event.....and then, being just under the surface IT comes out.
The presstitudes push this BS. Until we get an honest press in this country, one that doesn’t take either side, nothing will change. I go up to my 101 yrae old father-in-laws house in Minnesota. He only gets ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, PBS, and some globull channel that may be BBC on his TV. Watches that S**T all day long. As soon as I get there he goes off on how bad Trump is. When I respond he shuts up and goes to another topic. He doesn’t accept any opinion other than the gospel he gets fed by his TV.
Interesting observation. I live in a small town in Central Kentucky, and I overwhelmingly encounter the sweet kind of black people. The mayor is a black guy (who is also an ordained minister) in a town that is about 6-8% black.
Wait till you get a White mayor.
Even at their lowest points, Republican pariotism were higher than Democrats’ highest points... The dhims only feel patriotic when their own was in White House. Even that was so-so...
Interesting how the Independents seem to track — with a slight lag — Democrat opinion. Could be the effect of the negative Media barrage when R’s hold the White House?
Just another grift by the race hustlers, suckered a bunch of stupid white liberals into giving them money to enrich themselves and do nothing for anyone else.
BTTT
And even used by manipulative people in ourlives too, in one form or another. They lie, expect us to believe them, and get ticked if we don’t of we question them.
I’ve got that quote in my profile page as it’s so appropriate for what we have gone through after obama-s reign of terror.
The graph is misleading, it doesn’t show a 10 point trend move from extreme or very to moderate proud, over the last 20 years. I think it purposely wants us to assume the move is a dramatic shift to not proud.
https://news.gallup.com/file/poll/692198/250630Proud.pdf
The country is up to around 16% foreign born, greater than that considering only the adult pool. I assume many to have loyalties back home.
Can the Marxist tactics…?
You hit on the great problem, that our side will not fight.
It is not necessary to use their tactics. Any tactics will do.
We have too many conservatives that enforce niceness in their social circles, especially in the churches.
Women are a special problem. It is their nature to avoid conflict until it is forced upon them. However that means it is now too late!!
And now the far-left, national “media” is trying to pour buckets of DemonRAT gloom, despair and misery all over happy Republican Americans. Screw the RATS in Tats.
Great homepage. Thank you.
“Women are a special problem. It is their nature to avoid conflict until it is forced upon them. However that means it is now too late!!”
Yep. Society begins its fall when women are able to vote. In the chain called strength there is now a plurality of weak links!
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