GALLUP: Democrats & the young aren't proud of America (07-01-2025--Hour3)

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One of the things that in reading through this data becomes very clear is that people on the right do not They do not penalize America when like in their love for America, their patriotism, they don't penalize America when a Democrat wins the presidency, but Democrats do. That's very clear. Whenever Trump won, all of a sudden, Democrats are like, I hate America, I'm not proud of America anymore. And then it goes back up when their guy wins, and then it goes back down when the other guy wins. And you don't see those large shifts. Among Republicans, nineteen percent say they are moderately proud, eleven percent only a little proud, and nine percent say not at all proud, not at all proud, which I think is that's basically the squad. That's the squad in Congress, the nine percent. Until twenty eighteen, so six years ago, less than ten percent of US adults had consistently said they had little or no national pride. Now it's a twenty percent. In January of two thousand and one, so before nine to eleven, when Gallup first asked Americans how proud they were, eighty seven percent said extremely or very proud. After the nine to eleven attacks, the figure increased to ninety percent and did held at that level or higher for the next four years. Then in two thousand and five it dropped down to eighty three percent, but it kind of was around that mark for the next decade. In twenty seventeen we saw a new low seventy five percent. Seventy five percent say that said they were proud. And ever since then twenty seventeen, ever since then, national pride has deteriorated further. Why Trump and Democrats, you know, derangement syndrome over Trump, that's part of it. Here's another tidbit. Democrats are mostly responsible for this drop in US pride. This year, thirty six percent say they are extremely or very proud, down from sixty two percent a year ago. Think about that, Only one third of Democrats are proud of their country. Two thirds are not. Political independence pride also reached a low point. They're at fifty three percent. That's down seven points from last year, but that was a previous low as well. Republicans level of national pride has been much steadier, typically registering above ninety percent this year ninety two percent. That's up from eighty five percent. You know what I mean. They like You expect to see these bumps when their guys win in the you know, the race for president, so you expect some movement there, but they are Their Republican responses are far more stable over the decades, usually clocking in around eighty five to ninety five percent. In other words, Republicans love their country and Democrats tend to not, and their opinions are tied to whether or not they win, and they don't win, than America stinks. There are also generational differences. This is going to shock you. Each new gen generation has significantly lower numbers. They are less likely than the previous generation to say they are extremely or very proud to be an American. For example, Generation Z forty one percent are proud. That's it, forty one percent of Generation Z proud to be American. Millennials they're at fifty eight percent. Gen X, the Best Generation seventy one percent, Baby Boomers seventy five percent, the Silent Generation eighty three percent. See, so there's like this constant drop off. Why is that? What could be doing this? All generations have shown declines of ten or more points since two thousand and one over the last twenty years, but most of the change has happened since twenty sixteen since Donald Trump. Democrats are largely responsible for declining US pride within each of the generations as well. Right, So, the only reason why you've got like forty one percent of adults in Gen Z that are proud to be American, that forty one percent, that's basically the Republicans driving that number up to forty one percent, because when you break it down, gen Z Democrats no pride. More Gen Z Democrats say they have little or no pride in being an American than they than say they are proud to be American. There are more think about that Generation Z, they are not proud to be There are more people in Gen Z that are not proud to be American than are proud. Gallup says at the beginning of the twenty first century, US adults were nearly unanimous in saying they were extremely or very proud to be Americans, but that national unity has eroded over the past twenty five years due to a combination Here's what they say, a combination of political and generational changes such as I don't know, let's keep reading. 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. 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 Union, greater ideological divides between the parties, unfavorable images of both parties, and intense partisan rancor during the Trump and Biden administrations. I would humbly submit an additional factor. Education the K twelve government education model and at the collegiate level that the kids are being taught that patriotism is uncool. And if the Republicans are, you know, proud of their country, then you can show that you are not a fascist by not loving your country. This is why you remember the Republican National Convention, the last one where they had you know, kid Rock up there singing, they had Hulk Hogan all these thing and Democrats are like, well, it is all of this, Oh my gosh, it's like a carnival, and it's like, yeah, it's okay to love America, guys. That's what that was. It was a celebration of America. That's what they were doing. It's cool to be patriotic, and we have taught generations of kids. No, it's not because America is evil. America is an oppressor. You know. Stories are powerful. They help us make sense of things, to understand experiences. Stories connect us to the people of our past while transcending generations. They help us process the meaning of life, and our stories are told through images and videos. Preserve your stories with Creative Video started in nineteen ninety seven and mind Hill, North Carolina. 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Democrats diminished pride in being American is more clearly linked to Trump's time in office. But while Democrat's sense of national pride rebounded when Biden took office, it did not go back to its pre Trump levels. So he says, it's not just a Trump story. Something else is going on, and I think it's just younger generations coming in and not being as patriotic as older people. Again, why I would submit it is the indoctrination. It is the teachers, professors who are telling the students that America's you're all the reasons why America is a colonizer, how why America is an oppressor, an imperialist, all of these terrible things. America is not a force for good. Other recent polling shows Democrats and independents are less likely than Republicans to say that expressing patriotism is important or to feel a sense of pride in their national leaders. Nearly nine to ten Republicans in a twenty twenty four SSRs poll said they believed patriotism has a positive impact on the United States right, ninety percent of Republicans say being patriotic has a positive impact on the nation. Democrats not so much. Only forty five percent said it had a positive impact. Thirty seven percent said being a patriot was a negative. Which brings me to a guy named Yuri Besmanov. Does that name ring a bell? Forty years ago? This guy defected from the Soviet Union went to Canada in nineteen seventy, so actually fifty years ago. He claimed to know details of a Soviet plan to undermine the United States, not on the battlefield, but in the psyche of the American public. And in nineteen eighty four he gave an interview to G. Edward Griffin about a long term plan put in play by Russia to defeat America through psychological warfare and what he called demoralization. Demoralization occurs under this ideological subversion category. He says, this is a process which is legitimate, overt and just out in the open. You can see it with your own eyes. All you have to do, all American mass media has to do is to unplug the bananas from their ears, open up their eyes, and they can see it. There is no mystery, there's nothing to do with espionage. I know that espionage intelligence gathering looks more romantic. It sells the orderance through the advertising. Probably that's why your Hollywood producers are so crazy about James Bond type of thrillers. But in reality, the main emphasis of the KGB is not in the area of intelligence at all. According to my. Opinion and opinion of many defectors of my caliber, only about fifteen percent of time, money and manpower is spent on espionage. As such, the other eighty five percent is a slow process which we call either ideological subversion or active measures actively miripriatia in the language of the KGB. Or psychological warfare. What it basically means is to change the perception of real of every American to such an extent that, despite of the abundance of information, no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interests of defending themselves, their families, their community, and their country. The purpose is to change the perception of reality to such an extent that nobody can come to sensible conclusions to defend themselves. Does that sound familiar, he says, well, in other words, yeah, it is brainwashing. It's a great brainwashing process which goes very slow, and it's divided in four basic stages. The first one being demoralization. It takes from fifteen to twenty years to demoralize the nation. Why that many years, because this is the minimum number of years requires to educate one generation of. Students, one generation of students. They've been at it. This was again nineteen eighty four. They've been at it for decades. Demoralization right to brainwash an entire generation. Now that's assuming of course that you can do it in like every single classroom all across the country. So his timeline on this stuff because he said like it's already been done, it's already over whatever. And I think he was premature. But we're seeing the fruits of the communist labor. It's manifesting now all around us. That's what we're looking at, right. And it has spread like a cancer inside the Democratic Party, and the Democrat Party is going to have to fight it because they're not going to have a party left. And if you've got one of the major political parties that is afflicted with this rot and they're holding positions of power in various cities and states, and there are a few seats away from majority control, and you can let yourself get taken over. Nobody down for America. Here's a great idea. How about making an escape to a really special and secluded getaway in western North Carolina. Just a quick drive up the mountain and Cabins of Asheville is your connection. 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You can see most of the people who graduated in sixties dropouts or half baked intellectuals are now occupying the positions of power in the government, civil service, business, mass media, educational system. You are stuckling them. You cannot get rid of them. They are contaminated. They are programmed to think and react to certain stimuli in a certain pattern. Cannot change their mind, even if you expose them to authentic information, even if you prove that white is white and black is black, You still cannot change the basic perception and the logic of behavior. In other words, these people, the process of demoralization is complete and irreversible. To get rid society of these people, you have you need in another twenty or fifteen years to educate a new generation of patriotically minded and common sense people who would be acting in favor and in the interests of the United States society. Right, So you basically have to wait for these commies to die off because the demoralization process, he says, is irreversible. He also noted that these useful idiots would be among the first to be rounded up and removed in a communist revel. The psychological shock when when they will see in future what the what the beautiful society of equality and social justice means in practice, Obviously. They will revolt. They will They will be very unhappy, frustrated people, and the Marxist Leninist regime does not tolerate these people. They obviously they will join the links of dissenters dissidents. Unlike in present United States, there will be no place for dissent in future Marxist Leninists America. Here you can you can get. Popular like Daniel Ellsberg and filthy rich like Jane Fonda, for being dissident, for criticizing your pentagon. In future, these people will be simply squashed like cockroaches. Nobody is going to pay them nothing for the beautiful, noble ideas of equality. This they don't understand, and it will be the greatest shock for them. Of course, he goes on to say later that the demoralization process he thought was already completed, this was again in the mid nineteen eighties, and most of the demoralization is done by Americans against Americans. So basically America is stuck with demoralization. And unless even if you start right now here, this minute, you start educating new generation of American it will still take you fifteen to twenty years to turn the tide of ideological perception of reality back to normalcy and patriotism. The next stage is distabilization. This time subverter does not care about your ideas and the patterns of your consumption. Whether you junk food and get fat and flabb it doesn't matter anymore this time, and it takes only from two to five years to distabilize the nation. It's what matters is essentialsonomy, foreign relations, defense systems. And you can see it quite clearly that in some areas, in such sensitive areas as defense and economy, the influence of Marxist Leninist ideas in the United States is absolutely fantastic. I could never believe it fourteen years ago when I landed in this part of the world that the process will go that fast. All right, So that's subversion. What's up next. The next stage, of course, is crisis. It may take only up to six weeks to bring a country to the verge of crisis. You can see it in Central America now, and after crisis, with a violent change of power, structure, and economy, you have so called the period of normalization. It may last indefinitely. Normalization is a cynical expression borrowed from Soviet propaganda when the Soviet tanks moved into Czechoslovakia in sixty eight, com versions that now the situation in brotherly Czechoslovakia is normalized. This is what will happen in the United States if you allow all these schmucks to bring the country to crisis, to promise people all kinds of goodies and the paradise on Earth, to destabilize your economy, to eliminate the principle of free market competition, and to put a big broader government in Washington, DC. Subversion crisis, then quote normalization. He said, Americans have been lulled into a false sense of peace as well. Most of the American politicians, media, and educational system trains another generation of people who think they are living at a peace time falls. The United States is in the state of war. Undeclared total war against the basic principles and the foundations of the system. And the initiator of this war is not. Common than the drop of of course, it's the system, however ridiculous it may sound, the world Communist system or the world Communist conspiracy. Whether it's scared some people or not, I don't give a hoot. If you're not scared by now, nothing can scare you. So listen to what he just said. There. He's not talking about specifically the Soviet Union. He's talking about the world Communist system. These principles, the idea, this system. I believe evil. Communist system is evil, and so it kind of makes sense, this battle against evil. That you can see the Soviet Union fall, But that doesn't get rid of the evil. All right, if you're listening to this show, you know I try to keep up with all sorts of current events, and I know you do too, And you've probably heard me say get your news from multiple sources. Why well, because it's how you detect media bias, which is why I've been so impressed with ground News. It's an app, and it's a website and it combines news from around the world in one place, so you can compare coverage and verify information. You can check it out at check dot ground, dot news slash pete. I put the link in the podcast description too. 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Now, obviously this was eighty four and so this was before the wall fell, But the stuff he's talking about exists. It persists still because this is the ideology of the world communist system. This is what Marx put forward. He says, how do you fight against it? He was asked in this interview and what can be done at this point? He says, there has to be a national effort to educate people in patriotism, and that's the first thing, and explain the real danger in socialism. If people will fail to grasp the impending danger of the development, nothing ever can help. United States. You make kids, goodbye to your freedom, including freedoms to homosexuals, to prison inmate. All this freedom will vanish, evaporating in five seconds, including your precious lives. The second thing, the moment at least part of the United States population is. Convinced that the danger is real. They have to force their government. And I'm not talking about sending letters, signing petitions and all this beautiful noble activity. I'm talking about forcing United States government to stop aiding communism. What does he mean by aiding communism. He's talking about no credits, no technology, no money, no political recognition, no diplomatic recognition. And at the time, right, he comes from the Soviet Union. But we are still facing this very thing, except we're doing all of this stuff that he's selling us don't do, but we're doing it with China. And China is just running wild in America. They're running wild with funding of the colleges and universities, right, all these different programs. There's another story today about an AID that worked in the New York Governor's office who just got busted for spying for China. And he says again, like you have to break, you have to wake up and realize that you are not at peace. You are in a state of war with this ideology. If you're talking about capitalists or wealthy businessman, they I think they are selling the rope on which they will hang very soon if they don't stop, if they cannot curb the unsettuled desire for profit, and that they keep on trading with the monster of the Soviet communism. They are going to hang very soon. He says, he knows that all of this is unpleasant to hear, and he also knows that Americans don't like hearing things that are unpleasant. But he says he's telling us this because there isn't any other place to defect to. That's what he said. We are all in this boat now together, and if this boat sinks, I'm sinking with it. I mentioned China. The Heartland Institute put out a pull done in conjunction with Rasmussen Reports, and one third of Democrats want the United States to lose a trade war with China. A third want us to lose to China. Another third aren't sure whether they want America or China to win. That's the modern Democrat party. And this is why I am not confident in the Democrat's ability to fight back this red green coalition, this far left Marxist communist ideology that has so corrupted it at this point and is represented by the election of the New York City mayor. Because they're going to look at that election and they're going to take all of the wrong lessons from it, which is, we need to do what he did, We need to be what he is. Wanting Donald Trump to fail is pretty much what you would expect from any set of partisans, and that only a third of them so hate Trump that they actually want our country to suffer for the pleasure of seeing it. David Strom at hotair dot com says, given that globalism is the brand, so to speak, the elite wing of the Democrat Party, this numbers actually doesn't actually shock him. They says, that doesn't mean these people are off the hook. They aren't, but rather this is a pretty normal state of affairs for extreme partisans of any kind. That's the first point. But the second point is that the indoctrination of our youth has been working. The kids are being taught communism is good, capitalism is the root of all evil, and the propaganda has stuck. All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could not do the show without your support and the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast, so if you'd like, please support them too and tell them you heard it here. You can also become a patron at my Patreon page or go to thepetecleanershow dot com. Again, thank you so much for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.