More on Modern Pride in the USA| Hour 3

What's going on. Thank you so much for listening to this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon to three on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream I Daily show prep with all of the links, become a patron go to dpekclendershow dot com and make sure you hit the subscribe button. Get every episode for free right to your smartphone or tablet, and again, thank you so much for your support. We're talking about American Pride. A new Gallup pole out just last week shows that American pride has fallen to a twenty five year record low, with only thirty three percent of individuals saying that they are extremely proud to be an American. We've talked about some of the education issues as it relates to why I think this poll and this response is so low. But there's also a very heavy political element to this as well, as I am of the mindset that those on the political left cannot divorce the United States of America from the current president. So it goes into the details. The decline has been driven almostly entirely by Democrats and independents. In two thousand and one, the first time Gallup asked this question, they've been doing so for the last twenty five years. Fifty four percent of Democrats and forty six percent of Independence said they were extremely proud to be American. That was the highest option. All of the answers were either extremely proud, very proud, moderately proud, only a little proud. Or not proud at all. Those are the five options that you could respond with in this Gallop survey. So in twenty twenty and one, twenty five years ago, again, fifty four percent of Democrats and forty six percent of Independence were extremely proud, the top of the five options. Compare and contrasts that to this poll, just fourteen percent of Democrats say that they are extremely proud to be American, while twenty eight percent of Independence and say the same thing. Republicans have been far more consistent. Sixty four percent of them said they were extremely proud in two thousand and one. Fifty eight percent or fifty eight percent did so at their lowest point during the Biden administration, and seventy percent of Republicans today say that they are extremely proud. Among Democrats, pride was the highest during the Biden administration reaching thirty four percent in twenty twenty four. So that goes to show you that my hypothesis on this is absolutely correct. Those on the political. Left, and in some cases not many, and some on the political right, way more on the left cannot divorce current policy and politics from the nation as a whole, and that's a very dangerous thing. You can be proud, and you should be proud of the United States of America, and you can also be critical of said nation. You can also be critical of said individuals that are running the nation at the time, that have been elected to a variety of different positions the United States House, United States Senate, President of the United States. You can be critical of policies and individuals and politics moving forward without despising or hating the United States of America. To back this up, during the break, I caught this hilarious post on Twitter from an individual who works over at the New York Times and CNN. Her name is Lula Garcia Narravo. She works over again at the Times and CNN. This is a post she just put out on Twitter. Why are we having so many jets scorching over. Washington, d C. It's nerve racking. I get the two hundred and fiftieth celebrations, but it feels like an apocalypse. How do you wrap yourself up into putting out a post like that? Now, maybe she's content farming and and looking for some free and cheap engagement on an idiotic post on social media, But really it's nerve racking that there are jets flying over Washington, d C. To celebrate two hundred and fifty years of America. You feel like it's the apocalypse? Are those jets flying over DC dropping bombs on the nation's capital? And we just got a news update at the top of the hour. I didn't hear Scott Hamilton mentioned that the capital of the nation was currently being bombed, Because it's not These jets are flying over because it's an incredible display of American military force. It's an incredible display of our nation's brave men and women that put their lives on the line each and every day. So that I can sit here on this July the third and broadcast to you so that you can enjoy maybe you're day off from work or what you're going to be doing this weekend, heading to the heading to the beach, spending time with family and friends. It's an apocalypse currently happening in Washington, DC. According to this illustrious New York Times reporter and CNN reporter Lula Garcia Navara, what an idiotic thing to post, But again, I think it fits right into this story about this gallupole. People can't disconnect. They have to correlate current politics with the nation as a whole, back to the gallupole. It reads. This has coincided with a decline in trust in many American institutions since two thousand and two. Those who say they have a great deal or quite a lot of trust in the Supreme Court has fallen from fifty to twenty seven percent, in Congress twenty nine to ten percent, and in the presidency fifty eight to thirty percent, and in the military from seventy nine to just sixty two percent. According to the Gallup Poll, the current decline and institutional and government trust echoes the public frustration with the American government. During the Vietnam War, by nineteen seventy one, sixty one percent of Americans said they said it was a mistake to send US troops to Vietnam. Similarly to fifty eight point five percent who now disapprove of military actions against Iran, but that level of opposition has emerged just four months after the conflict began, compared to with six years after the United States sent its. First ground troops to Vietnam. So talking about some of the previous times in American history, previous events in our nation in which people have been frustrated or had some level of frustration, and again, that's fine. You can be frustrated with what's going on. I would argue in some cases, you should be frustrated with what's going on. I think that's a normal, good reaction. You can you should be critical of what goes on in the United States of America, but you can do so without acting like a complete and total clown like Lula Navarro over at the New York Times, who claims that she's her nerves are racked because there's a lot of jets and a lot of B fifty two's flying over Washington, DC ahead of major events that have been going on and will be taking place in the nation's capital over the next couple of days. She called it an apocalypse. Little deranged, I might say, little out of touch. I think the vast majority of people see flyovers at football games and parades and all these different events in which these flyovers happen, and say, wow, that's pretty damn cool. That's a really cool thing that we're watching seeing. But for the New York Times and for CNN, it's nerve wracking. It's an apocalypse taking place in our nation right now. As I mentioned, I have not seen any reports, and I think we'd see them pretty quickly if the US capital had currently was being shelled from the air. Obviously that's not happening. All right. Let's head on over to our WBT text line driven by Liberty Buick gmc charles is texting and he says pride in our nation and a lack of gratitude are directly proportional. Liberals and leftists as a group are not grateful for anything. That's why poles have consistently shown that conservatives are happier than liberals. You cannot be unhappy without gratitude. Great point there, Charles, And yeah, this is a broader trend many of these individuals because politics is a religion for them, and they're so wrapped up in I said, religion, which happens to be a political opinion and a political thought. They're miserable. They're consistently miserable. They hate everything. They wake up every single day as a miserable individual because of politics. And that's not to say that you shouldn't have feeling or emotion or thoughts on what's going on, but you don't need to make it. You don't need to let it ruin your entire life. I work in politics for a living. I sat through, as many of you did, through the previous four years of the Biden administration. It wasn't great, but I didn't let it ruin my life. I didn't let it make me a miserable, unhappy, useless to society person because I disagreed with Joe Biden. No. I voiced my opposition and I lived my life. I enjoyed my time, did what I wanted to do. I didn't let it control every single facet of my existence. That is a problem on the left right now and again is because politics is a religion for these individuals, all right. 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Losers make excuses for their fails and how they feel. They're self centered, self righteous, and selfish. They live with envy, jealousy, and hate. Great point there, HP, I mean, and that's exactly the point I was trying to make before the break. And you can be frustrated with what is going on within an administration. If you're a Republican, you're probably gonna be frustrated with a Democrat president. If you're a Democrat, you're probably gonna be frustrated with a Republican president. That is a very normal thing. I would argue that is a rational thing and a common thing. But you can be frustrated while at the same time not say I hate the United States of America. I hate our nation. I am not proud to be here. But there just seems to be no divide, no gap between those two things. And it's a very It's a concerning thing, and it should be a concerning thing. Bob texts in on our WBT hotline driven by Liberty Buick gmc he says, how can gallop how can gallup questions be answered accurately when the US political media says that the duly elected president is characterized as Hitler without evidence? Exactly, Bob, And that's like half the problem here. There's so much negativity in our society. There's so much there's such a lack of information not only about America, but about in large part, the entirety of the world in world history, that this just becomes a normal common thing. You've got a lot of individuals that are just so negative right now. They're so down on everything that it permeates throughout every element of their life. And it's a very dangerous and disastrous mindset to have to be so negative about everything in society, to wake up every single morning and have dread and despair on your mind and in your heart, that you're never gonna be able to accomplish anything, that you're never gonna get ahead, You're never gonna own a home, You're never gonna get a job that that that pays you what you want, You're never gonna get married, You're never gonna have kids. This is what a lot of younger people, unfortunately in American society, that is how they feel right now. Blame. Oh, it's the boomer's fault that this is happening. It's these previous generations that have destroyed the United States of America and don't and have robbed and taken away all my opportunities. It's it's not accurate, and it is a disastrous mindset to hold. And I think it leads you into the responses and some of the answers and that that you see in this this Gallup Pole, these these other surveys that lay out what the general feeling on America is right now. So looking at some of the other details, we're going through at least a little bit of a Gallop poll that asks the question how proud are you to be an American? Five different options, Extremely proud, very proud, moderately proud, or only a little proud. Thirty three percent say that they are extremely proud, Fifty three percent say that they are very proud, excuse me, twenty percent say that they are very proud, twenty two percent say that they are moderately proud, fifteen only a little proud, and nine percent not at all proud. For those nine percent of individuals, the question would be what are you doing in the United States of America? Then? If you are not proud at all of this nation and the things that have been accomplished in this nation, then I think it's a fair question to ask what are you doing here? Why are you continuing to live in a nation, live in a society that you are not proud of at all? Right, that's the logical question that should be asked. And you see a lot of this, and it all boils back to the current political environment, the current political sentiment in the United States of America that there is no gap, there is no distance between thoughts on people politically and the nation as a whole. That is a disastrous mindset to have, as we've been talking about, and it creates, I think problems for our nation moving forward. American pride is one of the major things that we have that many other places, I would argue most other places across the world do not have. They just don't. There's no pride. Look at what's going on over in Europe right now. I mean, look all these nations over in Europe, all part of the great plan known as the European Union, that are being destroyed by immigration, the fabrics of their societies literally being eroded in real time by mass immigration prescribed by the European Union. You think there's a lot of national pride in places in Europe right now, here's newsflash for you, four to one one. It doesn't exist. They don't have it. And with everything going on in those places right now, with their societies literally being changed from within disastrous policies by so many of these government organizations like the European Union, it's no surprise there is nothing left to be proud of. There's no nation practically at this point, there's no borders, there's. No rule of law. You can waltz into wherever you want to be commit mass acts of atrocities and violence. You've been reading and seen on social media and in the news over the last couple of weeks. What's going on in Europe right now. It's a total dumpster fire, it's a total disaster. These countries have literally nothing left. There's no pride over there, and it makes sense with the fact that these nations are literally being destroyed from within. We have and should have pride in the United States of America because we get a choice, and not everybody can say that. Most places, i would argue, can't say that. They don't get a choice who sets the policy. They don't get a choice who's in control. They don't have the ability to say, you know what, I don't like the way that something is happening. I don't like X, Y or Z, and so I'm going to elect somebody that has a different view on those issues. Most places don't have that. We do, and we see it every two, every four, every six years, depending on the political office that you hold, the House, US House President every four years, sent it every six years. You have the ability and you know, of course, then you look at voter turnout and you see, oh great, sixty percent of people voted, couldn't even be bothered to show up and get involved in the process, get involved in determining who is going to lead your city, your town, your state, or your nation moving forward. Too much of a burden to get involved in that process, too much of a burden to be involved in what makes America America, the civic process, getting involved in electing your officials, which again, I think the reason why you see some general lack of interest in that is because people don't realize how good they've got it. As I mentioned, going all. The way back to the twelve o'clock hour when we started the show, we are comfortable. We don't have these major things like you see in the rest in other places throughout the world. We're comfortable, and that comfortability breeds some of these issues, breeds some of these problems. As we lead you into a busy July fourth weekend across the state of North Carolina and the nation, events literally happening everywhere. I've been seeing some clips popping up on social media during the show today showing some very cool flyovers and very cool things happening in our nation's capital. As the President is set to give what he calls a lengthy address, a lengthy speech tomorrow which God only knows how. Long that could be. You know, he speaks for forty five minutes to an hour pretty regularly. So I'm not exactly sure what that's going to sound and look like, but looking forward to some of the commentary there from a President Donald Trump. Seven four five seven one seven nine is our phone number. Let's jump on over to our WBT hotline. Say good afternoon to d Wayne hanging on the line. You're on the Peak Counter show. Go ahead, Ah, yes, sir, Hey, thanks for your show. Glad you're there. But the first thing I want to say, I am proud of our Constitution. I'm proud to be an American. I love this country. Brother, It's it's it's the greatest thing that's ever happened, next to the Bible in heaven. I don't know how people hate that because the first thing, the first thing it gave us was freedom, and it opened the statement said we're not perfect. We're going to go for a more perfect. That's what I don't understand how people cannot grasp that. There's just that, there's a total there's no appreciation. I mean that that's really that's really what it comes down to. I mean, I I keep going back to this and I'm not trying to be ugly about it. But we're so comfortable right now. I mean, we're just we're so incredibly comfortable. That's not to say that people don't have heartache, heartaches and issues, and there are terrible tragedies that happen to families every single day. Not I'm not minimizing any of that. As a people right now in the United States of America, we are so incredibly comfortable. We've got so much available to us that I think I think the way and the problem you run into is it's hard to imagine that that isn't the case, and I think that is what leads to some of this negative mentality. It's a lack of history and a lack of appreciation. Amen. Amen. I have called my senators Tom Tillis, Ted Bud both. I've invittomed to my property. I said, come out here, man, I'll give you my house. I'll stay in a tent, but you come out here. See what I gotta do to make a living. I got to grow stuff. I gotta plant gardens. Come on out here. See American, seen American. Y'all are so far away from us that you don't know what's going on, or they do and choose not to reflect on that. Yeah, And I think that's that's part of this. Going back to some of the details in this Gallup poll that we've been working through over the last couple of hours, there's this general lack of trust in within institutions in the United States Congress and the President of the United States, not just because of who's in there now, but in general. To that point, I think is a large reason why some of those numbers continue to plummet. You compare and contrast some of the individuals of the past, these key figures, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Washington, Alexander Hamilton, these are just these are just regular guys. These are just regular, normal everyday guys that had these aughts in their crafting of the Declaration of Independence. And there's no question about it. D Way, we have definitely drifted pretty far from that. We have a we've absolutely done a drift there. I appreciate the call. This afternoon seven oh four, five, seven oh one oh seven nine is our studio hotline. That's where you can call or text to be part of the program. This afternoon, Eric is texting in on our WBT hotline driven by Liberty Buick gmc. He says motivation to get involved is tough with both candidates are usually pretty awful. Eric, it's just a loser mindset. I mean, I hate to say it, but but it's just that's just a loser mindset. If you don't like the candidates that are in that are in front of you, if you don't like the individuals that are your options for whatever sort of political office we're talking about, then do something about it now. That could include running for office yourself, which I understand is not feasible or practical for everybody. Then get involved in the primary process. Get involved with individual people who you believe are the best individuals in the room, the best individuals tasked with leading a change in direction or leading a policy or an agenda or a platform going forward. I'm sorry, I just I can't buy into that. It's just it's a loser mentality. Both candidates are awful. Kind of what does that mean we have the ability to be involved in our process. We want to know what the voter turnout was in North Carolina and our primaries in March of this year. It was less than twenty percent on average across the state, less than twenty percent of people got involved. Now I'm not saying you weren't or people around you weren't, but there's your problem. If you are constantly feeling that all the candidates that are put in front of you on a ballot in November are terrible and awful, that's where you make your difference. Not to get too far off the path on this Friday leading into the July, the fourth weekend, it doesn't take much. Eighteen percent voter turnout is a pretty easy thing to deal with. You're not competing with everybody, You're competing with a relatively small sample size of individuals. I just I'm not going to get into a mindset or get into a series where everything is doom and gloom, all the candidates suck, all the policies suck. I just am not gonna do it. Because we have the ability to actually make a change here in America. And that's not to say that there's not problems with the Democrat Party, there's not problems with the Republican Party. I'm not saying that one or the other both are perfect. They're not. They're far from it. But you can make a change by getting involved with this stuff. You can't make a change. Posting on social media about it, you can't make a change, and complaining about it on Facebook or on Twitter, that doesn't make a change. But you can absolutely make a change by getting involved in this process, getting involved in what goes on. Is it a commitment? Absolutely? Is it a lot of time? Yeah? Is it a lot of blood, sweat and tears, You know it. It ain't easy. But there's a reason to be involved in that process. There's a reason that we should be doing it, and it's because it's the foundation, the fabric of our nation being involved Back in seventeen seventy four, seventeen seventy five, and seventeen seventy six, if the colonies at the time said, you know, this whole independence thing, it's probably gonna be a lot of work. It's probably gonna be a huge pain in that. You know what, Eh, we'll just continue being ruled by the crown. Eh, We'll just continue allowing the British leadership. We'll continue to allow King George the Third to rule over a nation from three thousand plus miles away. Eh, it's a lot of work. I'm not interested. I'm gonna go back to my farm. I'm gonna go back to selling my goods or cutting down trees or whatever I was doing at that period of time. We wouldn't be here right now. I would not be talking to you. That's not a mentality that the colonies and the colonialists back in the starting in the late seventeen sixties and through the seventeen seventies and seventeen eighties. That's not the mindset they had. They said, we're fed up with this, we don't like what's going on, and we're gonna do something about it. And lo and behold July the fourth, seventeen seventy six, and they did something about it, officially declaring independence from Great Britain. Topics all surrounding American pride, national pride. There's some concerning stuff going on right now with some very disturbing details out of a gallup pole and some other political polling showing that people are not proud to be an American, that they do not have a sense of pride in our nation. And that's miserable. It's an awful, terrible, miserable place to be. But that's where people are right now, and it's in large part. I think due to how consumed we are with politics. And I get it. I work in politics, I do it day in and day out. But there's got to be a disconnect, there's got to be a break. It's okay to say I'm not happy with what's going on, but I'm still so incredibly grateful to be an American, to have been born in the United States of America. To celebrate what we have in this country. If you look across the rest of the globe, there are not many places that have the opportunities, have the abilities, and have the freedom anywhere in comparison to what we have here in the United States. It's not close. It's not comparable. But that is the unfortunate reality of where so many people are right now is a miserable place to be. There's it's got to be so depressing and so sad to be in that mindset. Each and every day. We're going into the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, grabbing back our freedom, our sovereignty from the British Crown, from King George the Third, from British Royalty, to be governed by ourselves. That does not come without issue, that does not come without strife, It does not come without problems. I'm not saying any of that, but that is what happened and two hundred and fifty years ago. Over the last couple of days and leading into tomorrow, it's an amazing thing. It's an amazing opportunity that we have here in the United States of America. I will contend to you, and we've heard from some of you texting and calling in throughout the program here today. You're grateful for it. You should be grateful for it. You should be proud of it. Doesn't mean it's without problems. Doesn't mean it's not without hardship or heartache or problems or issues. Those two things can exist at the same time. You can have problems. You can be concerned with the way things are going or might be going or have gone. All of that is fair, all of that is valid. It should not cause you to hate the United States of America. And I use that word very explicitly in this reason. Hate that's what people think. That's a lot of the mindset, that's a lot of the attitude. We hate the United States of America. That's a very strong thing to say that is a very strong feeling to have, and it leads us, I think, unfortunately, that a very dangerous road. We have got it very good in this country. We have got it very good in this nation. Even individuals in the United States that are not the best off, that struggle with very serious things, even those individuals have it better than the vast majority of the rest of the world. And you learn this stuff by reading a little bit about history, learning what goes on in other places, learning about what happens in nations all across the globe. It's so frustrating to me that seemingly our society is so ill informed as to what the rest of the world is like. When all of this information is freely and publicly available the tap of a finger, sitting down at a keyboard typing in a couple of things into a Google search or an AI search. Stuff is a immediately available right here, right in front of your fingertips, right in front of your face, completely for free. I'm Nick Craig. It's been a pleasure sitting in for Pete Calendar here on the Peate Calendar Show. 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 thepeakclendarshow dot com. Again, thank you so much for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.