Posted on 07/07/2023 8:37:18 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I’m a Gallup responder myself. I’m extremely proud to be an American with this proviso: the America I once knew, the one I’m proud of, is gone.
But the Americans I’m proud to be among— are still here, for a while longer. And I intend to make the most of THAT.
Only 39% of Americans described themselves as “extremely” proud to be an American – but this statistic doesn’t tell the whole story. The partisan breakdown is fairly staggering, as only 29% of Democrats and 33% of Independents describe themselves as extremely proud, whereas 60% of Republicans said they are extremely proud.
Democrats are not proud to be American, because as liberals, they are pissed off about, take your pick, racism, sexism, the Supreme Court, Trump, homophobia, global warming, and how oppressed people allegedly are.
A big number of Republicans are not proud, but for different reasons. As conservatives, they are not proud of the changes in America in recent decades, and are not happy with how America has changed.
Both liberals and conservatives see big numbers of their groups not proud of America, but for different reasons.
Why dont they just as “Proud or not proud”?
Extremely proud? Why don’t they ask the question a different way?
Would you prefer to be a citizen of any other country?
If so, what country?
Proud of the country or proud of the government? Easy to conflate the two, depending on how the question is asked.
How ironic that we just went through a whole month of “Pride” having absolutely nothing to do with patriotism or any other virtue.
Only 42% of the people left in this country are Americans, so that’s not a bad number
You are exactly correct. I am proud of my flag. I abhor what that flag repesents today. I will fight to return what that flag once represented.
My pride is for a nation Under God…ok, we’re done.
There are ever fewer because over time fewer can recognize that property must first be sourced internally in personal self-protection, opinion, religion, communications, use of abilities to labor physically and mentally, and in conscience. Only through secure exercise of those intangible liberties can one acquire the traditional manifestations of property.
For an ever-increasing number, the American Dream has become government providing laws to ensure college funds, retirement accounts, savings, affordable health care, home ownership, lifetime employment, corporate wealth, political careers, and union benefits.
We have the greatest country that the world has ever seen. The current government representing us really sucks.
I love my country.
I hate the uniparty globalist socialists at every level of government with every fiber of my being.
Libs are turning the place into a third world
Yep
Not that I focused on three successive individuals in a row or anything like that.......not that there’s anything wrong with that....
I find this sort of poll rather odd, people who are totally opposed to what the country is currently doing say they are extremely proud, and people who support what the country is doing say they are not. Does that make any sense?
People are seeing through the question and answering a different question, I believe. That actual question being answered would be, in theory, could you be a patriotic American proud of a strong and free America? (not that there is any chance of having such a country under present circumstances).
But if liberals cannot say yes we are proud of this country as it currently exists, then why do they support these policies? That part makes no sense to me, not that I would support those policies myself.
How can you be proud of what the neocons and globalists have done in our name the last 20 years. Domestically, I am a stranger in a strange land. We can’t even send my grankids to public school any longer. I’m certainly not proud and have no recourse since representative democracy is also dead in this country.
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