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.

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      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?”

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        18 hours ago

        We wouldn’t be anywhere close to qualifying for admission into the federation. They require a stable world government.

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          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.

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            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.