A new Gallup poll shows American Pride at its lowest ebb since 2001 — with women and minorities hardest hit. The slide from pride affects both sexes, all races, and every age cohort, Republicans and Democrats. Are you proud to be an American? Proud as you were four years ago?
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I despise polls, but if I were to answer the question, it depends. What does it mean to be “proud to be an American”? Does it mean we are grateful to our government for usurping our freedoms? Does it mean we are proud of the 60 million abortions performed since Roe v Wade? Does it mean we love sucking on the teat of government largess? Does it mean we’re thankful for throwing off the shackles of morality and glomming onto socialist reforms? Despite these changes in our society, I wouldn’t want to live in any other country because no other country has a Bill of Rights like ours
Bill’s comment about the voting patterns of men and women over non-recent history I think is an accurate dart, but I would counter with “things haven’t changed that much, but the Perception of things has” to Scott’s comment.
With the Me Too movement I am sure a bunch of women are not happy because a bunch of idols have been exposed and others have not been pulled down (as some think they should) and following Trump’s locker room talk being pushed constantly, women, forgetting they can be catty and just as vulgar as men, hold that against him. I think men recognize what Trump said as truth and that pretty women have ignored them for years while chasing after the powerful and the attractive.
Looking at a lot of things rationally can lead you to see that the best of a bad group of choices was made, emotionally fixates on who was harmed instead of how many more were helped.
I share Bill’s pride in America as an Idea, a framework that allows people to achieve the impossible (or trans-possible as mentioned in another video), that unshackles them from the class of their parents and gives them the freedom to dream to be whatever they want. We as a country have provided more aid around the world I think per capita than any other place or time in history as well, and our achieving space flight and moon landings have greatly enriched the world with all of the scientific discoveries found along the way. It might be made in China (and before that, Japan or Taiwan) but it was invented and designed here, and still is. We are the one place people still try to come to for our freedom, opportunity and blessings and that is why I am most proud. Not for the bad things that are in our past (for everyone has those) and not for the bad things in our present (for everyone has those too) but for the good things we do now and promise to do in the future.
I’m sorry to be so cynical, but as soon as I heard the survey question, I figured every democrat would consider it a referendum on Trump and say, “no.”
P.S. Regarding Scott’s last question: I think a better survey question might be, “Are you thankful you’re an American?”
I am proud to be an American. I can still worship the Lord Jesus Christ but with the last Supreme Court decision, I don’t know how much longer it will last. I pray the lord will continue to look out for the USA and these good men at Bill Whittle.com
And by the way, Bill, you have a gorgeous wife!!
I must be in the 42 percentile. I live on a pretty busy street, and my flag goes up in the morning before I go to work, and comes down at sunset when I get home. My neighbors across the street, originally from England but newly minted Americans now, fly their Stars and Stripes, as does the neighbor next to them. I count 10 flags on my street. It’s a little thing, but it is also a finger poke to those who pass buy who are not in the 42%. It was my dad’s flag, and after his passing, I inherited the house, live in it proudly, I kept his little decal on the front door window which is a simple single star on a white field representing 1st Army, and I fly his flag every day. And every day I put it up, and take it down with respect, I think about the United States of America and what it means to me, but also what it represents in it’s ideals. Wanted to insert a photo I just took of the flag in front of the house, but I guess we can’t do that for comments. Scott???? Can we fix that?
Scott’s question, “What does it mean to be proud to be an American?” is the only one that matters. The survey question, “Are you proud to be an American?” is so broad that it could have someone who is rabidly in favor of the ongoing rebellion saying that xer is extremely proud to be an American because of xer’s belief that “the people” rising up against “the system” is exactly what Americans ought to be doing, so the fact that it is happening is the thing to be proud of.
For myself, I am proud to be an American because of the founding principles of the country. I am devoted to those principles. The level of my pride varies to the extent that those principles are upheld or violated. If this country becomes what the rebels want it to be, my pride will be replaced by shame and revulsion and I will do whatever I can to live according to those principles, however and, more importantly, wherever that might be.
The liberals have spray painted abuse and inequality on the monument of our national pride. I wonder if the next step is to rename and rebuild pride in another image.