Posted on 07/06/2017 5:49:57 AM PDT by Kaslin
Polls out for Independence Day hit a sobering note: Our patriotic feelings are on a steady decline. Gallup found the number of people describing themselves as "extremely proud" Americans has dropped from 70 percent in 2003 to just 52 percent in 2016. Just 34 percent of Americans ages 18 to 29 picked "extremely proud."
That's also demonstrated in the latest poll from YouGov, which finds that while 61 percent of people 65 and older describe themselves as "very patriotic," only 20 percent of those under 30 describe themselves as "very patriotic," while 35 percent said they were "not very patriotic" or "not at all patriotic."
Could the days of "Morning in America" be over? Is Ronald Reagan's vision of a nation's embrace of her exceptionalism a thing of the past? There is no question that we are headed in the wrong direction.
American exceptionalism is on trial, and one man is pleading for her to regain her senses. Mark Levin's new runaway best-seller, "Rediscovering Americanism," somberly argues that the American experiment is over if the "tyranny of progressivism" is not defeated. The surveys showing such a dramatic decline in patriotism, especially among the young, indicate that the progressives are succeeding. Levin is calling for America to rekindle her exceptionalism -- a belief in the inalienable rights of man and the preservation of a system of ordered liberty through the rule of law.
This is exactly the discussion the country should be having. It's also a discussion a big swath of America wants to have. Huge crowds are coming to Levin's book signings, and they're selling like hotcakes.
Levin is correct to argue that our educational institutions, including the media and Hollywood, want everyone to accept that the progressives have won, and he'll have none of it. "Rediscoving Americanism" is a cogent plea to reject a federal leviathan, an all-encompassing administrative state, and return to a limited government based on the firm ground of the Constitution. It's a trumpet blast for liberty.
Levin is offering precisely what progressives fear most: independent thought. In the age of liberal fascism, conservative ideas and conservative authors will not be allowed access to the airwaves -- including the taxpayer-funded TV and radio stations. They call themselves the "mainstream" media and preach the gospel of tolerance, but on both counts, the progressives are frauds.
They will allow a discussion of public policy -- as long as it matches their worldview. Think Sen. Al Franken. He is no Mark Levin intellectually, but that's irrelevant. His book came out a few weeks ago, and he was the progressives' toast of the town, celebrated all over "news" shows, "public" TV and radio, and late-night comedy shows. The Washington Post and The New York Times rolled out 1,300-word rave reviews.
But once again, Levin is being shunned by the thought police. Witness that though it's a runaway best-seller, now seven weeks consecutively, the establishment media have censored him completely, with not a single interview granted.
It would be very interesting to know the percentage of people polled were actually AMERICANS not just someone living in America?
Not concerned yet as those are just 2016 numbers.
Gallup found the number of people describing themselves as “extremely proud” Americans has dropped from 70 percent in 2003 to just 52 percent in 2016.
I would like the poll to differentiate between proud of America vs US government vs current administration.
Although certainly related, these things are conflated all the time.
Could the days of “Morning in America” be over?
Since 1993.
2 Timothy 3:
But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. 2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, 4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these. 6 For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses, 7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. 8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith.
Does this not sound like the Antifa's, or the SJW's or the snowflakes throught college campuses?
People who are perpetually offended at anything others do.
Who view THEMSELVES and only themselves as people having rights.
Patriotism requires looking at others, your fellow countrymen, as honorable.
Tell me Romans 1 doesn't describe todays leftist.
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, 19 because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. 20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse. 21 For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22 Professing to be wise, they became fools, 23 and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures. 24 Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them. 25 For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. 26 For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, 27 and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error. 28 And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, 29 being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips, 30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful; 32 and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them.
There is a very simple solution. If they don't like it, they should go back to where they came from!!!
I find the choice of years to compare unfair. 2003 was close after 9/11, and Americans were riding a wave of patriotism. No poll for the Obama years is mentioned, but the first year of a new President who has been attacked by the media like no one else is compared to the post 9/11 era?
I don’t believe this. There is a lot of fake news out there and I do not trust many outlets. Gallup is not one I trust.
I looked for Levin’s book on the Slimes Best Sellers list - hardcover non-fiction. It wasn’t listed. What best sellers list is it noted on? Amazon?
Likely voters poll, like Rasmussen does is more reliable, than even registered voters polls
Maybe the problem with Levin’s book sales isn’t patriotism, maybe the problem with the book’s sales is/was the (sometime vile) nevertrump author of the book.
UNFORTUNATELY for readers of Pravda on The Hudson, their “best seller” list has little to do with any overall national “book sales” at all.
Here’s how it works:
I did not vote for Donald Trump in the Primaries, but I decided to vote for him when he won the nomination, as did Mark Levin.
God willing I I gladly will vote for him in the 2020 primaries and general election. Just like I did in the 1984 reelection of President Reagan, and the 2004 reelection of President George W. Bush.
The #Nevertrumpers are those like Ben Shapiro, who I enjoyed reading before he became a Never Trumper, or Jonah Goldberg.
Excellent point. Thanks for posting.
“Could the days of “Morning in America” be over?
Since 1993.”
Actually since 1989. George H.W. Bush purged the Reagan conservatives from the White House and the party as soon as he became president. He replaced patriotism with globalism - open borders, free trade deindustrialization, and endless foreign wars.
I’m about 1/3 through “Rediscovering Americanism” and recommend it.
our magic negro did a great job. Pathetic a-hole.
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