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The Death of Patriotism
by Jeffrey Tucker Daily Reckoning
Wall Street Journal has conducted a poll with the most interesting results.
From 1998 to the present, the percentage of Americans who say that patriotism is an important value has crashed from 70% to 38%. The bulk of the fall has happened since 2019.
More results will be discussed in a bit but let’s first focus on this issue of patriotism.
The poll doesn’t define for the respondents what patriotism is but reflect on the word. It can mean love of country and homeland. It’s perhaps true that this has fallen. That’s believable since the U.S. in three years ceased to place freedom as a first principle.
Indeed, there is a growing cultural movement, extending from academia to the mainstream, that encourages loathing of American history and its achievements.