This Fourth of July, patriotism is on the decline. According to Gallup polling only 42% of Americans are “extremely proud” to be an American. Chris Cillizza explains why this number has been steadily falling.
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Hey, Chris here – are you proud to be an American?
@Biasly Unbiased Yes!!!! If not, then move to Africa!
White salves black masters in the US https://youtu.be/MwN-Pdfd-Qo
@WDEMMEL 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yes. Extremely proud. and i think we should all protest CNN and all major American news outlets because you are the divisive part if our great country
Proud to be an American *and* for the last several years, embarrassed too.
Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it’s wrong.
@Robert Clawson 😆
@Rod the Union took it too easy on the Confederacy…
Thats why we voted for Trump so he would challenge the inbred demorats and he did
@Rojo baby has no choice at 9 months?
@Jay Ess confederacy= dnc,,
In 1945 : Thank you America!!!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
In 2020 : You guys stay over there…….
Trump 2020, hands down!!
@Michael Phillips a better life under a dictator who is a white supremacist? who is worse than hitler?
Spencer Clarkl American exceptionalism = American narcissism. It’s the malaise that has caused the downfall of your country. Keep believing you’re the best and you don’t need to think about how you treat each other.
kingtut777 What does this say about you? You support a president without a moral compass and therefore you lack one too?
@Spencer Clarkl
He didn’t divide anyone. When he became president, millions of salty lesbians and soyboys started spreading hatred all over the country without consequence.
All of this anger is coming from your left, not your right.
Being patriotic doesn’t mean being a blind fool that supports an idiot. The Nuremberg Trials proved that.
The first amendment and the bill of rights addresses that
@Michael Law — get some help, ps I didn’t finish reading your endless unfounded racist rant, but seriously get help
@Robert Clawson blind fool that supports an idiot.
@Rod blind fool that supports an idiot.
America can’t say anything to Germany anymore. They at least all know they did wrong, meanwhile we have a significant amount of unashamed, even proud, nazis and their sympathizers.
There is less and less to be proud of every year. By every significant measure of quality of life, Europe leaves the US in the dust.
@Michigan Wolverine _’Europestan is bankrupt with all the entitlement programs…’_ Average debt-to-GDP ratio in the EU is ~80%. The debt-to-GDP ratio of the United States is 107%. So apparently the US is even more bankrupt than ‘Europestan’?
B Babbich Haha I live in Arkansas (The rectum of the union) and love it here
Do you live in the u.s.?
@Lams532 That is the most stupid, uninformed comment I have read on a Youtube video for months, and believe me I have seen hundreds. You obviously live in a dream world that is totally divorced from reality. Freedom of speech is a fundamental principle in Europe, but as in all civilized countries in the world you can be prosecuted if you overstep the line between using freedom of speech and spreading lies to incite racial hatred. Which, I suspect, is your problem.
Hell Canada leaves the US in the dust and we pay through the nose in taxes. Glad my grandparents moved here instead of Stateside, other than an overfunded military everything else is sadly underfunded.
“Bigger, better, stronger “ …anybody else remember this line from the “six million dollar man”????😁
We need Clinton’s and Biden and Podestas all Arrested asap they’re also abusing and Trafficking children!
https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy_commons/comments/f79pra/joe_biden_has_an_island_next_to_epsteins_island/
https://youtu.be/diqSlOC3UF4
He can’t hold altitude he’s breaking up, he’s breaking up
Well Trump is living in a fantasy land like one where bionics are in use and Bigfoot is an alien robot
@boyo111 you live in a fantasy land derived by CNN telling you everything have fun wasting your life defending a lie
Yes we can. Obama 😂 bob the builder. 😉😂 what a joke
I would disagree. I think people are redefining patriotism. Running around bragging about how We’re Number One while ignoring the well being of your actual countryfolk doesn’t cut it anymore.
@Gerardo Argueta Just because it’s on Reddit doesn’t mean it’s true.
@Julia Sutton no they don’t
And all you people are giving up on the United States wow. We are and we always will be the best country in the world. If you don’t think so join the military and then we’ll show you the world and then you will see we have the most powerful military in the world by far for many many years. To all you people vote blue because Orange is going to prison
If the USA is the greatest country in the world..why aren’t you people wear a mask or stay inside or keep distance because you are killing your own people and it looks like you really don’t care..and that for the greatest country in the world..BE SMART BE SAFE.!!!
Yep bunch of countries do it better.
True patriotism has nothing to do with wearing a silly red hat, or wrapping yourself in the flag. Those are things you can train a mon.key to do. And if it’s something you can teach a mon.key to do, it’s probably not patriotic at all. True Patriotism is caring about what happens to one another. The heart of true patriotism is caring about what happens to your fellow American citizen.
“We may have all come on different ships, but we’re all in the same boat now.”
–Dr Martin Luther King Jr
Furthermore it’s caring about what happens to our constitution and bill of rights, with out them we are a great country no more
@Rod — American patriotism is to our Bill of rights and Constitution as we are free people choosing to live in freedom, not subjects of a king and not to be dominated by a orange moron
@kingtut777 ever think they made more then one party on purpose to divide the people (the art of war) and in the end they distract everyone from what’s really going on.
@Lester Buckler It’s nationalism and racism hiding under a mask of patriotism.
@Michael Law thank you for the post..THOMAS SOWELL,is a great man,
I am a VETERAN and I’m ashamed of trump using the military for his base.
you think p3d0file b!den will do a better job, and by the way. Any one can say they are a veteran online. That doesn’t make it true. I’m a Veteran and I will vote for Trump and I know many veterans who will also vote for Trump
Yep. I’m glad I’m out. Don’t want him as my CIC.
Your a vetren that fought wars for resources and lies
@majtom58because 👍
I genuinely thought “true Patriots” would be angry with the Dead-American-Soldiers-for-Russian-Rubles revelation…🤦♂️
We absolutely are, the Trump supporters are not Patriots and are not bothered by it, they have a strange desire to be dominated by a moron, thankfully they are not the majority of us
@Rod I wish I could say it’s amusing how much MAGAts love the orange kool-aid
Unfortunately it’s just frightening
@B G WTH? 😆
B G So two wrongs make a right?
@B G You know the best way to get out of a murder charge? Say that lots of other people have done it too so the fact that you did it is irrelevant, totally works 🤪👍
Even if I give your statement the benefit of the doubt, the fact that the last president did something horrendous doesn’t let the current one off the hook
MAGAts so easily believe every Faux News lie and assume that the left would never be open to criticizing Obama, just like they blindly drink the orange kool-aid, but when presented with REAL facts, not Faux News “facts”, we’re open to holding our own accountable, and I know you’ll say that’s BS, and I’ll point out your lack of contact with reality
I can’t take seriously anything from a group of people who compare wearing a mask to the Holocaust
My Patriotism has gone down due to our leadership in this messed up Country!
@Isa not true the true Patriots Like when the country prospers.exactly eat trump is doing
ya, nazi
When you realise that nations are just greedy self reightous machines of profiteering, deception, destroying the world and our species and patriotism is the westboro baptist church mindset of the follower.
You never had any patriotism in the first place, you just want free hand outs cause you’re a butthurt liberal with TDS.
brain washed cnn puppet. A lie told often becomes the truth to listeners. That’s called brain washing
“The whole world is laughing at us “- Donald Trump. That’s definitely the case now, Donnie.
@toxic wastetoid u watch FOX LMAO
@8 cats lots os bot here today rtmup must be loosing the vote atm…
They are laughing at him and his followers. Not all of us.
@Micha Helbig Hey Micha, Set aside politics. How has the weather been this summer over in Deutschland ?
no were not
I will always be proud to be an American, but I’am ashamed of our representation. P45 has Failed us, he’s failed the world as well. We are looking weaker, separated, and unintelligent. We have no president.
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you think p3d0file b!den will do a better job. We have a true leader in the white house unlike the sell out from 2008 to 2016. Giving 100s of billion dollars to iran an enemy of America
“Donald Trump”, PTSD trigger.
“President” Trump killed America. Will we revive?
The left wing globalist
I mean… Biden… Or Trump…. Doesn’t really look good either way
@Doom Sausage Exactly! We’ve seen enough damage from the leftist run cities and States and that is not what America wants.
@John O Vote blue? Not unless you’re insane and can’t see what’s really going on. Stay the hell away from CNN. They are poisonous fear mongers, liars, haters and divide the Nation.
A Love absolutely not liberal democrats killed america
So called patriots,never in the armed services, love Confederate flag, not knowing the confederacy were traitors.all around stupidity
These are just confused Traitors.
Go home troll
Yes, your comment is the exact representation of true stupidity.
When your nation’s leaders have so utterly failed you, patriotism is but the smile of a battered wife.
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the dems have done nothing for the last 3 1/2 years for America and Americans. They should all be voted out, bunch of sewer rats
When we lose trust in our government, patriotism dies with it.
Healthy Patriotism should always mean being the biggest critic of the current status and rant for improvement. Standing still means going backwards.
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Respect is something you earn and not just take!
If patriotism means rallying around trump, count me out. He’s a disgrace to this nation
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you think p3d0file b!den will do a better job
@beobe99 so how does liking Trump make you racist. We can both categorize each group
Yep. Eff that clown.
You dont matter anyhow kiddo
Loving America isn’t loving the government, it’s loving the people, and the land
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Not loving around 30% of the people, who wear red hats and are very hateful.