July 28, 2023 • 7 mins
A new Gallup poll is out with just exactly how many of us, particularly young people, are extremely proud to be an American. The numbers might shock you... or not.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
New Gallup poll out asking the question of how proud
are you to be an American? Breaks down a fair
amount by party line. Didn't used to near as much
does now? Like everything else, Democrats, twenty nine percent say
they're extremely proud. Well, how would you answer? Would you
be extreme?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:20):
I think I am. I would be telling you I
overthink everything I think. So I'm extremely happy to be
an American. I'll tell you that. If you're not, you're crazy. Yeah,
no kidding, Yeah, college students aren't. Some interesting numbers there
are coming up.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Because you got extremely proud, very proud. I'd be extremely
I really would. Gallup pole released this week showed twenty
nine percent of Democrats are extremely proud to be an American,
compared to sixty percent of Republicans exactly more or less
double yeah. Party identification huge there. That gap has been
(00:58):
particularly pronounced since twenty eight eighteen, with more than twice
as many Republicans as Democrats saying they're extremely proud. It
used to be pretty close together for many, many many
years about the same amount. Republicans are also twice as
likely as Independence to express the highest degree of pride,
so Democrats and Independence are way below Republicans on that
(01:18):
you want to attribute anything to that or read into
that at all before I move on.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Yeah, I think it's what we're describing earlier, a systematic
effort to teach young people that this country is awful.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
It's just one percentage off the record low of last year,
so it's within the margin barriers. So we're still at
a record low. Since Gallup has been asking this question
of Americans that are extremely proud of the Americans, that's
not good.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
For any country.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
For instance, you go back to January two thousand and one,
that's pre nine eleven, so you can't put it on
nine to eleven rallying around the flag stuff. Fifty five
percent of US adults overall were extremely proud to be
an American.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
And I'm sorry, what's the overall number now? It's dropped
down to thirty nine percent. Wow, it's a pretty big drop,
driven mostly by young people, which for some reason, we
the taxpayers, have decided to fund a school system that
seems like its goal is not to teach your kid
how to read or to do math, but to not
like the United States of America. As I've asked many
(02:21):
times over the years, has this ever happened in the
history of a world where a country decided, do you
know what we're gonna do. We're going to raise our
young to not like it here. Has anybody ever done
that as they hate their own people ever in the
history of the world ever?
Speaker 1 (02:36):
I wonder any historians or anybody who reads a lot
of history, has this ever happened before?
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Well, and when they're done with indoctrinating them that the
country is evil, they try to convince them that there's
no such thing as men and women and they should
change and get hormones.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Anyway, For the young crowd, eighteen percent of young people
say they're extremely proud to be an American. The eighteen
to thirty four a group, Well, he came out of
school and or college with teachers telling you NonStop about
all of our sins. Yeah, you would feel weird saying
you're extremely proud if that's what you've been learning.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Your whole life. Of course, it's troubling.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
It's beyond troubling. It's full on self destructive. It's like
I said, it's like the goal is to give up,
tear the country apart. I don't know what the goal is.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Well, the goal is to essentially tear down the country
as it exists now and rebuild it in a Marxist image,
these neo Marxists. And on that topic, Brad Palumbo had
this piece in The New York Post where he points
out the average college student graduates with nearly thirty thousand
dollars in debt. But if a stunning new poll is
anything to go by, students shell out all those tuition
dollars just to finish remarkably misinformed. And they're talking about
(03:48):
a big research project by North Dakota State University poll
students from one hundred and thirty one different colleges and universities.
That's a big study. For one thing they learned, college
students are remarkably pessimistic about American and world history, to
the point of complete historical illiteracy. The survey finds sixty
(04:08):
percent of students think life in America has gotten worse
or stayed the same over the last fifty years. Only
forty one percent correctly understand it's overall gotten better over
the last five years by both most objective measures. Now, culturally,
I suppose you could argue last fifty years, is that
what you said? Yes, sir, Just how inaccurate. This perception
(04:30):
is becomes clear when you consider the exact question. Polsters asked,
based on what you've learned in college so far, do
you think that life in the United States has generally
been getting better or worse over the last fifty years,
considering issues such as life expectancy, income per person, and
level of education.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Okay, see, I was going to say, I'm not sure
how it answered that question, but when you gave me
the categories, well, then clearly.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Yes, yeah, it's indisputable.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Yes, sixty percent think life in America has gotten worse,
stay the same.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Now, let's look at the.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Very metrics they asked specifically about. In nineteen seventy three,
fifty years ago, US life expectancy was seventy one point
four years. In twenty twenty, it was seventy seven point
three years, almost another six years of life by any
objective measure, that's a huge improvement. Let's turn to average
income per person has significantly improved. To accurately compare, we
(05:23):
have to account for inflation. When we do that, we
see income for person in America rose from twenty eight
grand to sixty six grand over the last fifty years,
more than double.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
That's ingested for inflation, yes, sir, but not including because
nobody does yet government transfers. Someday, we got to come
up with a way to start fake factoring that into everything.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Yeah, it doesn't differentiate. I don't know whether they did.
They're just doing income per person. But anyway, that's to
say nothing of the rapid social progress and chae that's
occurred over last five decades, which you'd think woke college.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Students would be so wouldn't be so.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Quick to discount racial acceptance, interracial marriage, et cetera. It's
kind of hilarious to think of the prototypical white, woke
college student trying to explain to an elderly African American
just how much worse America has gotten over the last
five years.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
That's a good line, good line.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
As Forbes reports, many women couldn't even get credit cards
in their own name in nineteen seventy three.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Really wow, that seems crazy.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Gay people faced anti sodomy laws on the books in
many states that literally criminalize their lifestyle. Are woke college
students really unaware of this basic history? In a funny twist,
seventy seven percent of students told polsters they believe their
college education is helping them develop quote a more.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Accurate view of the United States. Just hilarious.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
That would be hilarious if it weren't going to ruin us.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Uh, there's that hilariously tragic, it's tragic.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
What's our word tragifarious? Tragic? Horrifarious?
Speaker 3 (07:10):
What is both horrifying and hilarious?
Speaker 1 (07:12):
And you told us earlier what that's called when you
combine two different words like that, Oh, a portmanteau. That's
a good portmanteau. Tragifarious.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
It is French, like the popular bulldogs. The concept of
having a big income and not working also franche, because
America becomes more French by the day.
New Gallup poll out asking the question of how proud
are you to be an American? Breaks down a fair
amount by party line. Didn't used to near as much
does now? Like everything else, Democrats, twenty nine percent say
they're extremely proud. Well, how would you answer? Would you
be extreme?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:20):
I think I am. I would be telling you I
overthink everything I think. So I'm extremely happy to be
an American. I'll tell you that. If you're not, you're crazy. Yeah,
no kidding, Yeah, college students aren't. Some interesting numbers there
are coming up.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Because you got extremely proud, very proud. I'd be extremely
I really would. Gallup pole released this week showed twenty
nine percent of Democrats are extremely proud to be an American,
compared to sixty percent of Republicans exactly more or less
double yeah. Party identification huge there. That gap has been
(00:58):
particularly pronounced since twenty eight eighteen, with more than twice
as many Republicans as Democrats saying they're extremely proud. It
used to be pretty close together for many, many many
years about the same amount. Republicans are also twice as
likely as Independence to express the highest degree of pride,
so Democrats and Independence are way below Republicans on that
(01:18):
you want to attribute anything to that or read into
that at all before I move on.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Yeah, I think it's what we're describing earlier, a systematic
effort to teach young people that this country is awful.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
It's just one percentage off the record low of last year,
so it's within the margin barriers. So we're still at
a record low. Since Gallup has been asking this question
of Americans that are extremely proud of the Americans, that's
not good.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
For any country.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
For instance, you go back to January two thousand and one,
that's pre nine eleven, so you can't put it on
nine to eleven rallying around the flag stuff. Fifty five
percent of US adults overall were extremely proud to be
an American.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
And I'm sorry, what's the overall number now? It's dropped
down to thirty nine percent. Wow, it's a pretty big drop,
driven mostly by young people, which for some reason, we
the taxpayers, have decided to fund a school system that
seems like its goal is not to teach your kid
how to read or to do math, but to not
like the United States of America. As I've asked many
(02:21):
times over the years, has this ever happened in the
history of a world where a country decided, do you
know what we're gonna do. We're going to raise our
young to not like it here. Has anybody ever done
that as they hate their own people ever in the
history of the world ever?
Speaker 1 (02:36):
I wonder any historians or anybody who reads a lot
of history, has this ever happened before?
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Well, and when they're done with indoctrinating them that the
country is evil, they try to convince them that there's
no such thing as men and women and they should
change and get hormones.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Anyway, For the young crowd, eighteen percent of young people
say they're extremely proud to be an American. The eighteen
to thirty four a group, Well, he came out of
school and or college with teachers telling you NonStop about
all of our sins. Yeah, you would feel weird saying
you're extremely proud if that's what you've been learning.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Your whole life. Of course, it's troubling.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
It's beyond troubling. It's full on self destructive. It's like
I said, it's like the goal is to give up,
tear the country apart. I don't know what the goal is.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Well, the goal is to essentially tear down the country
as it exists now and rebuild it in a Marxist image,
these neo Marxists. And on that topic, Brad Palumbo had
this piece in The New York Post where he points
out the average college student graduates with nearly thirty thousand
dollars in debt. But if a stunning new poll is
anything to go by, students shell out all those tuition
dollars just to finish remarkably misinformed. And they're talking about
(03:48):
a big research project by North Dakota State University poll
students from one hundred and thirty one different colleges and universities.
That's a big study. For one thing they learned, college
students are remarkably pessimistic about American and world history, to
the point of complete historical illiteracy. The survey finds sixty
(04:08):
percent of students think life in America has gotten worse
or stayed the same over the last fifty years. Only
forty one percent correctly understand it's overall gotten better over
the last five years by both most objective measures. Now, culturally,
I suppose you could argue last fifty years, is that
what you said? Yes, sir, Just how inaccurate. This perception
(04:30):
is becomes clear when you consider the exact question. Polsters asked,
based on what you've learned in college so far, do
you think that life in the United States has generally
been getting better or worse over the last fifty years,
considering issues such as life expectancy, income per person, and
level of education.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Okay, see, I was going to say, I'm not sure
how it answered that question, but when you gave me
the categories, well, then clearly.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Yes, yeah, it's indisputable.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Yes, sixty percent think life in America has gotten worse,
stay the same.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Now, let's look at the.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Very metrics they asked specifically about. In nineteen seventy three,
fifty years ago, US life expectancy was seventy one point
four years. In twenty twenty, it was seventy seven point
three years, almost another six years of life by any
objective measure, that's a huge improvement. Let's turn to average
income per person has significantly improved. To accurately compare, we
(05:23):
have to account for inflation. When we do that, we
see income for person in America rose from twenty eight
grand to sixty six grand over the last fifty years,
more than double.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
That's ingested for inflation, yes, sir, but not including because
nobody does yet government transfers. Someday, we got to come
up with a way to start fake factoring that into everything.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Yeah, it doesn't differentiate. I don't know whether they did.
They're just doing income per person. But anyway, that's to
say nothing of the rapid social progress and chae that's
occurred over last five decades, which you'd think woke college.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Students would be so wouldn't be so.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Quick to discount racial acceptance, interracial marriage, et cetera. It's
kind of hilarious to think of the prototypical white, woke
college student trying to explain to an elderly African American
just how much worse America has gotten over the last
five years.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
That's a good line, good line.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
As Forbes reports, many women couldn't even get credit cards
in their own name in nineteen seventy three.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Really wow, that seems crazy.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Gay people faced anti sodomy laws on the books in
many states that literally criminalize their lifestyle. Are woke college
students really unaware of this basic history? In a funny twist,
seventy seven percent of students told polsters they believe their
college education is helping them develop quote a more.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Accurate view of the United States. Just hilarious.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
That would be hilarious if it weren't going to ruin us.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Uh, there's that hilariously tragic, it's tragic.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
What's our word tragifarious? Tragic? Horrifarious?
Speaker 3 (07:10):
What is both horrifying and hilarious?
Speaker 1 (07:12):
And you told us earlier what that's called when you
combine two different words like that, Oh, a portmanteau. That's
a good portmanteau. Tragifarious.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
It is French, like the popular bulldogs. The concept of
having a big income and not working also franche, because
America becomes more French by the day.
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