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.
I still have pride in what The United States aspired to be between the two times the billionaires took over.
Truth, justice, compassionate for most (not Nazis, for example) and a vision for a future that lifts up all cultures and takes responsibility for our mistakes.
I am definitely not proud of who we are right now.
America has always been owned by the capitalist class, since Jamestown. White supremacy has always been prevalent, even during the short period of social Democracy under FDR.
The United States has never aspired for any of those things. It was founded on Slavery and Ethnic Cleansing, values still institutionalized today in for form of penal slavery and chauvinism. Even the modern nazi movement of MAGA echos back to the supremacist practices the Nazi’s got from the US.
The values you like have never come from The United States, they’ve come from the history of resistance of American workers, from abolishionists to suffragettes to sewer socialists
You mean some of the 12 years when FDR was president? That may be the only time that somewhat matches your description, but still not full 12.
Wow…never seen such an ignorance of modern American history. Are you forgetting all the “interventions” the US did since the end of WW2, especially in South America where despite the supposed “war on drugs” the CIA teamed up with drug cartels, arming them, funding them, even allowing them to smuggle drugs into the USA to fund rebel fighters to overthrow governments? How it massively increased it’s prison population and then allowed them to be used as slave labour by corporations, actively got minorities hooked on drugs, used it’s own National Guard to kill protesting university students at Kent State?
Look up CIA involvement in Indonesia.
Right, i’m totally unaware of any of those things because otherwise I could not possibly have any aspirations or good feelings about the higher goals of many people in this nation have. Martin Luther King Jr. was just a fool if he even existed because this country is so horrible.
Truly, the fact that I still live in this country means that I am as bad as every one of those things that you described, because I haven’t killed myself or left in disgust before now.
LMFAO
what a joke
america has always been a terrorist right wing state since its inception, when did it represent those values? americans are most propagandized species
Give me something to be proud of, and I’ll be fucking proud.
But currently…
We have hands down, the most corrupt federal government in our history.
We’re blowing up non-military boats without any due process.
We’re shooting missiles in elementary schools and threatening the death of an entire country.
We’re financially and materially supporting/encouraging a genocide.
We’ve hung Ukraine out to dry.
We’ve absolutely skull fucked the global economy.
We’re being lead by (probably) a core member of the largest child trafficking operation in the last century.
Our people can’t afford healthcare, childcare, housing and food.
The right to vote is actively being undermined.
You know what would make me fucking proud?
Fining (or better yet liquidating) the corrupt companies, individuals and organizations that are party to trumps grifts, using that money to establish UBI, pay reparations to Iran (of all fucking things), establish fair and sensible taxation policies, reset the supreme court, and put every fucking member of the Trump admin through an actual justice system that is accountable to the people.
Franky, anyone who is proud of the US right now needs to be fucking locked up.
Oh, I forgot, we have literal concentration camps in the US right now… For the second time in 10 years!
Let’s be clear. The primary reason people have lost pride in America and democracy is Donald Trump and his administration. You can say other administrations have had their faults, certainly, but what’s happening now is far, far worse. And let’s not forget the constant drumbeat of propaganda from Fox News and other right wing outlets telling us our country is a shit hole. And again, we have our problems, but this is how propaganda works. You mix in some truth about something while wildly exaggerating or making up other things about it.
Not lost on me the ONLY time a president has been elected to serve more than twice was the most democratically socialist president the country has ever had. He was so good that Wall Street capitalist swine conspired to stage a coup led by General Butler, who did the right thing and exposed the fuck out of those assholes.
Oh if only principled and brave generals and admirals like Butler still existed today…
Weird!
The rise of the surveillance state that none of us wanted. Roaming death squads putting kids into concentration camps. Threatening to annex Canada, Greenland, Venezuela. A system of checks and balances that turned out to be a complete fiction. We spend billions on bombs and missiles so that we can get involved with Israeli genocide/rape/torture and other war crimes. AN INSANE NARCISSIST FLEECING US ALL AND NOONE SEEMS ABLE TO STOP HIM.
What’s not to love?
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
Nationalism generally should be shunned.
I’ve never been “proud” of the country I happened to have been born in and have lived in because I’ve never had the means to move anywhere else.
I’m much less satisfied with how things are going in this country over the past 10 years, but it’s never been great. Healthcare is a constant struggle, and terrible, for instance.
I don’t take pride in anything billionaires accomplish for themselves, which is 95% of what is usually pushed forward to take pride in. It’s all bullshit.
Recently, we’ve bombed children in other countries, should we be proud of that? I’m ashamed of my country at the moment.
Bit embarrassed to live on earth these days let alone the US.
Same. Looking forward to the aliens putting us all on time out.
I really hope like the galactic equivalent of the USS enterprise shows up and is just like “what in the fuck are you morons doing?”
We wouldn’t be anywhere close to qualifying for admission into the federation. They require a stable world government.
Oh no I was thinking more like a lost ship or something stumbles on earth. Given the choice they’d probably take one look and move on.
In the show they landed in plenty of authoritarian versions of Earth.
Even Picard’s god-awful season 2 went into the absurdities of the US’s medical industry and the treatment of immigrants.
Voyager also had a 2-parter with a 90s US techbro as the villain.
I’m a trans latina immigrant who fled the US after ~25 years there. I absolutely refuse to be labeled an American, but I proudly call myself a New Yorker.
I spent my entire life in the states fighting against an institution that doesn’t want me alive for basic rights that are awarded to other people by default. I still have to pay the US taxes but I’m not allowed to renew my passport because of who I am. Why the fuck would I claim it as my heritage? If anything, I’m grateful I wasn’t born there. Fuck the US.
On the other hand, I’m proud of my home city. I’m proud that I got to vote for Zohran, proud of my friends, proud of the artist communities, and overall proud of how NYC is inspiring other places to resist. As much as I love my new home, I also miss my old home. I am glad I can remain proud of my state after the term American has been dragged through algae green mud.
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On that note, I’ve always understood exactly why so much of the world hates the US. Me too buddy, me too. The loudest Americans I encounter nowadays are easily the conservatives who get off to ragebaiting the locals. It’s always a couple livestreaming and secretly looking for a third. Why are there so many of them!?
I think US history is fucking brutal, sad and shameful. Any white american, especially those who were here from the start, should not be proud of their heritage, I certainly am not. That said, I do embrace my country. It has the potential to not be shitty. We have kind people. We have generous people. We have so much that we could be proud of.
I think we need to reject the make america great again idea and charge it to make america decent for once. It could be great. But it never has been.
Republicans are out of touch on virtually everything. What a surprise.
I wish I had a way out or a place that would accept me.
Americans have grown less proud of their country’s history or the way its democracy works over the past decade
That’s because we’ve watched the veil of democracy fall and the Epstein class can do as they will with no recourse.
I have no pride in this shit hole country, only shame.
nothing to be proud of a neo nazi state
Bit slow, but correct response
