In four graphs, here are the result’s of Gallup’s latest survey…

Here is Gallup’s (weak, superficial, misleading, cowardly) analysis…

“At the beginning of the 21^st century, U.S. adults were nearly unanimous in saying they were extremely or very proud to be Americans. But that national unity has eroded over the past 25 years due to a combination of political and generational changes. Democrats today are much less likely than in the past to express pride in their country; in fact, their national pride has hit a new low. Additionally, Generation Z and millennials are much less proud of their country than their elders are.

These changes have occurred mostly over the past decade, and have done so amid greater pessimism about the economic prospects for young people, widespread dissatisfaction with the state of the nation, greater ideological divides between the parties, unfavorable images of both parties, and intense partisan rancor during the Trump and Biden administrations.”

Gee, what happened at the beginning of the 21st Century that could have triggered a down-turn in pride in the nation? Well…the nation was slowly coming out of a slimy sex scandal in the White House in which the President lied to the nation (“I did not have sex with that woman”…because, see, where I come from blow-jobs aren’t considered “sex,” see…), his wife enabled the lie (“a vast right-wing conspiracy”), and an entire political party reversed its supposed concern for feminism and women’s rights to deny their POTUS’s flagrant sexual harassment guilt, nominating as his successor the Vice President who had participated in that gaslighting. Meanwhile, the opposing party nominated a weak. mush-mouthed candidate whose main credential was being the amiable son of his former President father, and the election ended in a virtual tie with the key state’s popular vote confounded by multiple instances of incompetence (the “butterfly ballot”), and the subsequent recount marked by Florida (partisan, Democrat-dominated) courts ignoring the state’s laws, with the resulting mess having to be fixed by the U.S. Supreme Court. The election ended up with the winner losing the popular vote for the first time since 1888, which meant to large chunk of the under-educated American public that Bush was an illegitimate President. Then the Democratic Party began a still-running false narrative that the election had been “stolen” with the complicity of the Supreme Court.

THAT’s what.

But the main factors causing a diminished “pride” are:

1. Public education’s capture by the anti-American Left, which has taught rising generations for decades that the history of United States is one of racism, sexism, imperialism, genocide and ruthless capitalism, while allowing children to graduate from high school without learning and understanding of the U.S.’s unique and unmatched contributions to the world.

2.The rise of the victim hustle and the related dismantling of racial comity and respect, seeded by Barack Obama at exactly the moment when racial conciliation appeared possible.

3. The related activist groups that survive by emphasizing false and damning “facts”: Most women are victims of sexual assault. Women are undervalued in the workplace. Most whites are racist. American society is rigged against blacks….

4. The successive rise and fall of cynical, Machiavellian politicians on the Religious Right and then the Socialist Left, leaving Congress barely functional and resulting in the worst (dumbest, most dishonest, most corrupt) group of elected officials in American history.

5. The lazy and cowardly capitulation of corporations and non-profits to the George Floyd Freakout and the BLM extortion, followed by a untrustworthy election and a puppet Presidency.

6. The collapse of responsible journalism, with most of it now committed to ridiculing and denigrating the elected President of the United States.

7. The narrative that other nations are “better” than the United States because they have nationalized health care, no guns, Nanny state governments, and other benefits without measuring them against what those population give up in exchange…like freedom, character, and individualism.

8. The domination of our popular culture by illiterate Leftists, who bombard the public with anti-American, anti-capitalist stories and messages.

It is amazing to me that American, the gullible ones. at least, are as proud as they are.