A new AP-NORC poll finds that Americans have grown less proud of the country’s history or the way its democracy works over the past several years.

Americans have grown less proud of their country’s history or the way its democracy works over the past decade, according to a new AP-NORC poll.

Americans’ pride in the U.S. on several key attributes has dropped since 2017 — including the nation’s military and its political influence around the globe — according to the survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. This poll was conducted in April, as the United States and Iran fought over the Strait of Hormuz in a prolonged war that started with the U.S. and Israel launching strikes on Iran.

New Gallup polling also finds that only 53% of U.S. adults are “extremely” or “very” proud to be an American, the lowest reading in the trend dating back to 2001.

  • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
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    Yeah. Know what? I think that’s the narrative they’re trying to bully us into. The “proud patriots” being their right-wing gooshtepperz and everyone else just whining and hating the country and saying it sucks all the time.

    Nonsense! We should take pride in our country, because that spurs us to fight for it and make it better. You’re much less inclined to kick miscreants and ruffians out of a space you don’t consider yours.

    They practically already hijacked the flag, the flag that’s supposed to represent all of us. They’ve hijacked the narrative of the Christian faith as well, which actually used to be a HUGE leftist thorn in the side of capitalists, when it was actually centered about loving thy neighbor.

    We’ve seen in our lifetimes how easy it is for symbols to change. We need to take back our country and its heritage. The “red state” faction is even trying to claim the narrative over the revolution, instead of the more accurate history their ideology represents: The Shameful South of the Civil War. (They’ll hatefully decry all the “blue states” that actually won this land from the grip of the crown, of course.)

    Like we should just let them have all of that, while they give us a little corner to complain in? While they march a private army through our cities and abduct and murder our neighbors?!

    Hell no! This country can be a great country, when it’s a country for everyone. We just need to take it back from those who think they can make it “great again.”

    Have a safe July 4th, take pride in being an American by pissing off fascists and enjoying what’s good about your country and fighting loudly for what can be BETTER. They HATE that.