Proud to be an American?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Coming off the Independence Day weekend, our annual national birthday
party for the country. The parties, the flags, the parades,
the fireworks. Some of us dress up like Ben Franklin
and Sam Adams, Betsy Ross and the other heroes of
the Revolution. Makes us all proud to be Americans? Right right?
Maybe not? Just ahead of the fourth Nebraska based gallop,

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which has been asking for our opinion for a century,
found that only fifty eight percent of us are extremely
or very proud to be Americans. That fifty eight is
a record low. In two thousand and one, after the
attacks on nine to eleven, it was ninety one percent.
The thing is, the fifty eight percent is not equally divided.

(00:43):
Ninety two percent of Republicans are extremely or very proud
to be Americans. Democrats thirty six percent. Some of that
is Trump. Democrats hate him, think he's the devil incarnate
and his season power by the minute, definitely hate every
everybody who voted for him. But that is a one
way street. When Joe Biden was president, eighty four percent

(01:06):
of Republicans still loved the country. Age is a factor.
Both millennial and Gen zs are less proud than older generations.
Only thirty two percent of gen z ers those born
after nineteen ninety seven, which kind of bums me out.
I know a lot of Democrats. They aren't all that dogmatic.
They lean to the left, but they certainly don't hate
the country. Yes, most of them hate Trump, but haven't

(01:29):
liked most any Republican president since, say Abe Lincoln. But
are the results that's surprising? Let's find out over the
last two generations, the education establishment in this country has
spent a lot of time teaching both K through twelve
students and university students in this country was and is

(01:49):
systematically racist. Is it true? Well, in a twenty twenty
one you gov survey, large majorities of Democrats who responded
say we should be teaching c RT critical race theory,
including the part about how all racial disparities are rooted
in discrimination, Whites enjoy privileges to which only they are entitled,

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and all educators should make this a priority. Well, how
does a fourth grader not hate his country after hearing
that Liberal teachers have made certain to criticize the country
over what's known as land acknowledgments how territories in the
US were stolen from the native tribes, which roamed it
long before the Europeans showed up. That part is true,

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it did happen, But what may have been lost in
those lessons is what's happened since and acknowledgment by the
government that it was wrong, and all of the attempts
at restitution to descendants of Native and Indians free healthcare, education, housing,
economic opportunities, and that since the dawn of civilization, stronger
peoples around the world have seized things from the week

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as a child, if you were told by an authority
figure like a teacher, that your house, your town, your
state is on stolen land, how would you feel? This
part about the year sixteen nineteen, one hundred and fifty
five years before the declaration of independence. School teachers by
the thousands have that as America's first year since the
first slaves from Africa arrived. They have taught that men

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and women are inherently the same, and yet the country
is a well disguised patriarchy even in the twenty first century.
Contend that men hold dominion over women, the pay gap
has never narrowed. All untrue. They'll stoke discontent by claiming
Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton didn't lose because they were
lousy candidates with a ton of political baggage and no

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good ideas. But they'll tell you it was misogyny and racism.
Kids have been taught that capitalism is evil, told it
causes poverty. They focus on income inequality while exempting the poor.
They say, under no conditions can an individual use capitalism
to build wealth and security. Never mind the tens of

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millions lifted out of poverty around the world, or the
billions donated to charity thanks to American capitalism. Leave out
how some of the nation's wealthiest people Rockefeller, Ford, Walton, Buffett,
Jobs and Gates all started with practically nothing. They mask
Marxism as progressive, even though it splits us by sex, race, income, religion.

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The theme is if you're a success, you're the oppressor.
If not, you're the oppressed. They've been taught to ignore
heroism and celebrate victimhood. That makes sense. See, if you're
a victim, you're not happy about anything.