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| The Death of Patriotism |
| 2023-04-03 |
| [Daily Reckoning] From 1998 to the present, the percentage of Americans who say that patriotism is an important value has crashed from 70% to 38%. The bulk of the fall has happened since 2019. More results will be discussed in a bit but let’s first focus on this issue of patriotism. The poll doesn’t define for the respondents what patriotism is but reflect on the word. It can mean love of country and homeland. It’s perhaps true that this has fallen. That’s believable since the U.S. in three years ceased to place freedom as a first principle. Indeed, there is a growing cultural movement, extending from academia to the mainstream, that encourages loathing of American history and its achievements. No "Founding Father" is safe from being called the worst-possible names. Hatred of this country has risen to be an expected norm. But the problem goes even deeper. When you are locked in your home, your business is closed, your church is shut, your neighbors are screaming at you to mask up, then the doctors come at you with shots you don’t want, and you are further prevented from leaving the country to anywhere but Mexico, and the president calls the unvaccinated enemies of the people, sure, one can imagine that affections for the homeland decline. AMERICANS HAVE LOST FAITH IN THEIR INSTITUTIONS But there is another important pillar of patriotism. It is about trust in the civic institutions of the country. These include schools, courts, politics and all the institutions of government at all levels. Civic trust in these are surely at rock bottom. The courts did not protect us. The schools shut, particularly the public ones, which are supposed to be the crowning achievement of Progressive ideology. Our doctors turned on us. And let’s say that we consider the media to be part of civic culture. It has been that way since at least FDR’s Fireside Chats. It’s always been the mouthpiece for what we are supposed to be thinking about as a people. The media too turned on regular people for three years, calling our parties super-spreader events, jeering pastors who held worship services, demonizing live concerts and screaming at everyone to stay home and stay glued to the tube. Yet at the same time, they encouraged mass protests in the wake of the death of George Floyd. Think about the logic, or lack thereof. Yes, such evil antics tend to lessen public respect for all the institutions involved, especially when objections to these policies were censored by all the institutions we were supposed to trust with our data and friend networks. They turned out to be wholly owned too. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #9 Totally agree with comments 5 thru 8. |
| Posted by: Whiskey Mike 2023-04-03 18:43 |
| #8 #2 "our elites" exist on a different plane and many can't be touched by voting...or whatever passes for voting these days. The ballot box lies in ashes, and tomorrow we get word on the soap box. I can't say I'm optimistic. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2023-04-03 17:38 |
| #7 Entirely possible to love your country without loving the government. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2023-04-03 13:49 |
| #6 At this point, "Patriotism" is standing up for the ideals this country was founded on. Only way for this to happen is to be willing to fight and make the other side bleed buckets to bring it back. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2023-04-03 13:05 |
| #5 If the news is accurate, that test to remove the yoke referenced above, comes as early as tomorrow. Far sooner than 2024. If Trump's indictment is followed by a blanket gag order akin to what was done to LTG Flynn, the Marxist alliance will have removed Trump from campaigning for President. What follows may well be the conflagration they have been hoping for... |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2023-04-03 11:50 |
| #4 oh yeah, that voting seems to be working out so well. Accept it, we're past that point. |
| Posted by: Chris 2023-04-03 08:42 |
| #3 Patriots don’t answer pollsters. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2023-04-03 07:48 |
| #2 Agree with B. Its not dead. Once we reset and remove our elites , by voting, we can take our nation back. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2023-04-03 06:55 |
| #1 Patriotism is not dead. Patriotism is on hold until this onerous yoke of government imposed communist oppression can be removed. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2023-04-03 00:17 |