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Nearly 70 percent say US is greatest country to live in: poll
NYPost ^ | 07/01/2021 | Mark Moore

Posted on 07/01/2021 12:35:34 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

MORE ON: POLLS To celebrate or not: Americans weigh risks for July 4 Inflation concerns soar with 85% ‘somewhat concerned’ about rising costs: poll DeSantis edges out Trump in 2024 straw poll, Tucker Carlson rules out bid NYC mayoral campaigns have vastly different estimates of voter turnout A new poll shows that 69 percent of voters believe America is the greatest country to live in — but that sentiment has fallen 15 percentage points in the past decade.

In 2011, 84 percent of respondents said the US was the greatest, and 83 percent echoed that sentiment in 2015, a Fox News poll found.

This year, 26 percent of voters said the US is not the best country to live in — an increase of 12 percentage points since 2015.

The survey, released as the country prepares to celebrate its independence this Sunday, found that voters under age 45 had the biggest decline in positive views since 2015, recording a drop of 21 percentage points.

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How can this be? I thought we are all racists and need to become commies to wash away our sins?
1 posted on 07/01/2021 12:35:34 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Media propaganda has been driving down approval among gullible younger people.


2 posted on 07/01/2021 12:37:17 PM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: WashingtonSource

I would have to agree that it’s not as good as it used to be.


3 posted on 07/01/2021 12:40:29 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: ChicagoConservative27

America sucks. But it sucks a whole lot less than everywhere else. Ted Nugent


4 posted on 07/01/2021 12:40:46 PM PDT by cyclotic (Live your life in such a way that they hate you as much as they hated Rush Limbaugh)
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To: cyclotic

The other 30+/- can start packing.


5 posted on 07/01/2021 12:41:43 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Considering how often we are lectured, that America is racist/sexist/homophobic and all the rest, and how America has failed to live up to its highest ideals, we see all that nagging propaganda has an effect on some people.


6 posted on 07/01/2021 12:41:53 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: ChicagoConservative27

7 posted on 07/01/2021 12:41:58 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The other 30% have never been out of the country and have not seen some of the hellholes out there. They would kiss the ground when the got back after visiting those places..


8 posted on 07/01/2021 12:44:38 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: ChicagoConservative27

>> found that voters under age 45 had the biggest decline in positive views since 2015

Obamajugend, Mmmmmm mmmmmm mmmmmm


9 posted on 07/01/2021 12:45:20 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
This year, 26 percent of voters said the US is not the best country to live in

The natural next question is, "Then which country is?"

10 posted on 07/01/2021 12:45:41 PM PDT by tnlibertarian
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I may criticize from time to time, but I wholeheartedly approve of this post. AMERICA RULES. ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTE!


11 posted on 07/01/2021 12:48:22 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (Eric Coomer of Dominion Voting Systems Is The Blue Dress.)
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What country do the 30% think is better?

Without the answer to that follow up question, you’re just getting griping.


12 posted on 07/01/2021 12:48:25 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: ChicagoConservative27

My tagline pretty much says how I feel about America.


13 posted on 07/01/2021 12:48:43 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (I love my country. It’s my government that I hate.)
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To: pfflier
"The other 30% have never been out of the country and have not seen some of the hellholes out there."

Yes, exactly. Mumbai, Rio, so so many places in East Africa.

14 posted on 07/01/2021 12:50:25 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (Eric Coomer of Dominion Voting Systems Is The Blue Dress.)
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The natural next question is, "Then which country is?"

And not even the most die-hard lefty will say "Cuba".

15 posted on 07/01/2021 12:50:43 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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What country do the 30% think is better?

Wakanda.

16 posted on 07/01/2021 12:51:13 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: pfflier

My sister-in-law’s husband, now deceased, was in the Marines during the Korean war. He saw Plenty of hell holes!

When they were relieved to return to the USA, at every stop the ship made, the long route from Asia-Africa-Europe, he refused to get off the ship until it reached the good old USA!

He had his fill of foreign lands.


17 posted on 07/01/2021 1:01:01 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ((Democrats have declared us to be THE OBSOLETE MAN in the Twilight Zone.))
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To: All

Propaganda only works on people that actually interact with it. News media doesn’t exactly get the ratings that it used to.


18 posted on 07/01/2021 1:01:16 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Free Chauvin)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

My dad was in the USAF and I never lived in the USA for more than 6 months at a time until I was 16. There was no sweeter taste than the taste of the America we had always heard about but had rarely seen.


19 posted on 07/01/2021 1:07:46 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I think it would be a worthwhile investment to find the 26% and finance a year abroad in Cuba, Venezuela, China or North Korea.


20 posted on 07/01/2021 1:11:33 PM PDT by McGavin999 (biden is not my president )
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