Dems got a national pride bump during Obama’s first term but it faded in term two, plummeted under Trump, and has only rebounded a little since then.
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I endorse Sunkara/Harrington Thought and think this is no way to do politics — gotta pick some stuff about your country to be proud of and run with it, there’s plenty to work with.
It’s interesting that independents are closer to Democrats though.
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Bhaskar Sunkara
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“If the Left wants to change this country because it hates it, then people will never listen to the Left. [We must] see, beneath corruption and meanness and the commercialization of human relationships, men and women capable of controlling their destinies.”
– Michael Harrington
I’ve said this often, and there are exceptions:
The right loves the USA despite its flaws. The left sees the USA as a flawed country. Interesting that the numbers have continued to decline on both sides.
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The graph is a bit manipulative. The usual practice is to put together "extremely" (category 1) with "very" (category 2)
The first step to fixing things is recognizing that there's a problem. I see this as potentially useful, in that we are really starting to understand our shortfalls. We just need to direct this towards action rather than nihilism
