The question is....are you proud of being an American (by party status), and the three groups (Rep, Dem, Ind) back in 2001....were neck-and-neck.
Somewhere in 2008....they started to slide.
Around 2015....it's a 30-point difference. by 2020, it's a 50-point difference. It regains slightly....but stands currently at a 50-plus-point difference.
The question is why?
I would offer three reasons:
1. The level and amount of propaganda is unprecedented. You tune in the news (national and local)....you view some sports telecast....you listen to some sermon from your minister, you probably are getting some faked-up lecture (full of propaganda).
2. The education sector (from high school to university) was geared toward a propaganda unit.....rather than being a place of learning.
3. Finally, Twitter....(before Elon)....did it's very best to forbid conversation over various topics. Rather than talking about some act of stupidity.....we deemed it a fact, and lectured people not to suggest otherwise.
Where we go from here? That's the bigger thing to worry about. If you aren't happy....where would you go? Canada, Ireland, or Russia? And would this movement make you feel a renewed pride in something?
The fact that people are now in some lecture mode to be anti-capitalist? That's really the 'cherry' on this cake. They seem to want the gov't to run the milk-industry, the banking sector, and operate grocery stores. It's like nothing from the Soviet era was deemed as a lesson learned.
