American Pride Hits New Low; Few Proud of Political System, by Megan Brenan, July 2, 2019
The eye-catching sentence is: “Democrats continue to lag far behind Republicans in expressing extreme pride in the U.S.”
The actual percentages expressing themselves “extremely proud to be American” are: Republicans 76, Democrats 22. That’s a heck of a gap: 54 percentage points. In 2001 it was ten points, 64 to 54.
Here’s my question for Democrats. The biggest issue in our politics right now arises from the fact that millions – tens of millions, likely hundred of millions – of foreigners want to come settle in America, with or without proper permission. Isn’t that an occasion for…”pride”?
Apparently not. This last week, we have seen a couple of major strides toward the abolition of Independence Day: .
The issue got further confused when diehard counter-revolutionary subversives noted that the Betsy Ross flag was prominently displayed at Barack Obama’s second inaugural bash.
Since it is inconceivable that Saint Barack himself was not fully woke to the shameful associations of the flag, a new justification for the ban had to be thought up.
The eye-catching sentence is: “Democrats continue to lag far behind Republicans in expressing extreme pride in the U.S.”
The actual percentages expressing themselves “extremely proud to be American” are: Republicans 76, Democrats 22. That’s a heck of a gap: 54 percentage points. In 2001 it was ten points, 64 to 54.
Here’s my question for Democrats. The biggest issue in our politics right now arises from the fact that millions – tens of millions, likely hundred of millions – of foreigners want to come settle in America, with or without proper permission. Isn’t that an occasion for…”pride”?
Apparently not. This last week, we have seen a couple of major strides toward the abolition of Independence Day: .
- First we have learned that the 13-star Betsy Ross flag is an emblem of fascism because of “its connection to an era of slavery.”[Nike Nixes ‘Betsy Ross Flag’ Sneaker After Colin Kaepernick Intervenes, by Khadeeja Safdar and Andrew Beaton, WSJ, July 1, 2019]
The issue got further confused when diehard counter-revolutionary subversives noted that the Betsy Ross flag was prominently displayed at Barack Obama’s second inaugural bash.
Since it is inconceivable that Saint Barack himself was not fully woke to the shameful associations of the flag, a new justification for the ban had to be thought up.