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.
Nationalism generally should be shunned.
I’ve never been “proud” of the country I happened to have been born in and have lived in because I’ve never had the means to move anywhere else.
I’m much less satisfied with how things are going in this country over the past 10 years, but it’s never been great. Healthcare is a constant struggle, and terrible, for instance.
I don’t take pride in anything billionaires accomplish for themselves, which is 95% of what is usually pushed forward to take pride in. It’s all bullshit.
Recently, we’ve bombed children in other countries, should we be proud of that? I’m ashamed of my country at the moment.