Posted on 11/29/2018 4:14:50 AM PST by gattaca
Younger Americans are turning on the country and forgetting its ideals, with nearly half believing that it isn’t “great” and many eyeing the U.S. flag as “a sign of intolerance and hatred,” according to a new and disturbing survey.
Those who came of age under former President Barack Obama also have a larger-than-life view of the 44th president and feel that he had a “bigger impact” on the United States than the father of the country and leader of the Revolutionary War, former President George Washington. Screen Shot 2018-11-27 at 4.25.17 AM.png (Screenshot/YouGov)
The YouGov.com poll was the first “State of American Patriotism” survey conducted for the Foundation for Liberty and American Greatness. The group educates Americans, especially grades K-12, about the country’s “values and principles that make our nation exceptional.” Screen Shot 2018-11-27 at 4.15.52 AM.png (Screenshot/YouGov)
But what the poll found is that they have a lot of work to do when it comes to those 38 and younger. Just one example: Four in 10 say it is OK to burn the flag.
“Younger Americans (under 38 – Gen Z and Millennials) are becoming unmoored from the institutions, knowledge, and spirit traditionally associated with American patriotism,” the survey analysis said. Screen Shot 2018-11-27 at 4.20.59 AM.png (Screenshot/YouGov)
The highlights provided to Secrets: Half of those surveyed believe the United States is sexist (50 percent) and racist (49 percent). American exceptionalism is on the decline — 46 percent of younger Americans do not agree that “America is the greatest country in the world.” 38 percent of younger Americans do not agree that “America has a history that we should be proud of.” One in eight (14 percent) of millennials agree that “America was never a great country and it never will be.” 46 percent of younger Americans agree that “America is more racist than other countries.” 84 percent of Americans do not know the specific rights enumerated in the First Amendment. 19 percent of millennials believe that the American flag is “a sign of intolerance and hatred.” 44 percent of younger Americans believe Obama had a “bigger impact” on America than Washington, the nation’s first president. Screen Shot 2018-11-27 at 4.21.21 AM.png (Screenshot/YouGov)
On the release of the report, Nick Adams, founder of FLAG, said, “We suspected that we would find decreasing numbers of Americans well-versed in our nation’s most important principles and young people less patriotic than the generations that came before, but we were totally unprepared for what our national survey reveals: an epidemic of anti-Americanism."
He added, "That half of millennials and Gen Z believe that the country in which they live is both ‘racist’ and ‘sexist’ shows that we have a major fraction of an entire generation that has been indoctrinated by teachers starting in grade school that America is what’s wrong with the world."
Many minorities among millenials.
“That is what they are taught in government schools!”
Very true, but there is no counter instruction from their parents. Parents can be dumb as a box of rocks when it comes to educating their children.
Also, every possible venue of societal instruction has been seized by the Marxist, globalist, one world government theologians. Every one of them. And that includes major Christian denominations.
Blame American public schools for turning out Leftist saboteurs. American taxpayers are paying for the rope that will be used to hang patriots. Start firing teachers and cutting school budgets when they are guilty of turning out anti-American students.
our welfare system pays them to breed ...
Gramsci’s plan ...
These are the same people that believe eating Tide Pods is a great idea.
The very same that fall off of cliffs taking selfies.
The ones that have a mental breakdown when trying to choose which bathroom to use.
The people that go apoplectic when someone does not use the pronoun de jour.
The very same people that Franklin warned us about when he said “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
Gifted to them by their parents and grandparents who voted for politicians and policies that kept kicking that can down the road.
Once enough of us meet our date with the Grim Reaper
this country is SOOOOOO SCROOOOOOOOOD.
I deal with Millenials all the time. Something north of 80% of them do agree with all this.
This is no surprise that Millenials have drunk the kool-aid.
They screwed up.
Badly.
They let government take control of education.
That stupid term was invented by a disgusting communist liar, who once polluted the airwaves with fake news on television.
They can’t forget ideals they were never taught.
That was us, not the Founders.
thats why they melt down and start screaming when you disagree, it a microaggression to disagree, and being woke to nightmare calling it good is asleep
Government has been in control of education in this country since before the Constitution was ratified. See, for example, the Northwest Ordinance. It specified that lands in each township would be set aside for "Public" (government controlled) schools.
Well, the first crops of “Barack Hussein Obama mmm mmm mmm” seedlings have immatured I see.
The kids hate America because of the cultural Marxism indoctrination that they have been taught throughout their schooling. It is no longer just in college (which is horrible), it is now also in elementary and secondary education. And most parents are totally unaware of what their kids are being taught. Very sad!
You can thank Howard Zinn for that.
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