Guest Post by Pat Buchanan
To love one’s country, Edmund Burke said, one’s country ought to be lovely. It would appear that 1 in 3 Americans, more than 100 million of us, no longer see our country as truly lovely.
In Stephen Vincent Benet’s “The Devil and Daniel Webster,” the tale is told that if you approached Webster’s grave and called out his name, a voice would boom in reply, “Neighbor, how stands the Union?”
“Then you better answer the Union stands as she stood, rock-bottomed and copper-sheathed, one and indivisible, or he’s liable to rear right out of the ground.”
Today, it would be untruthful to answer to the soul of Webster that our Union is “rock-bottomed and copper-sheathed, one and indivisible.”
For the divisions among us replicate those Webster witnessed in his last years before the War Between the States.
A Gallup survey reports the lowest figure ever recorded, 38%, for that share of our population that proclaims itself to be “extremely proud” to be Americans. Another 27% say they are “very proud.”
But the share of our people who say they are only “moderately proud” or a “little proud” or “not at all proud” to be Americans adds up to a third of the nation.
In the past, those “extremely” or “very proud” to be Americans used to average 80% of the country. Now it is down to 65%.
To love one’s country, Edmund Burke said, one’s country ought to be lovely. It would appear that 1 in 3 Americans, more than 100 million of us, no longer see our country as truly lovely.
While patriotism and pride in U.S. citizenship and in being part of this national community are eroding, other problems are being revealed by public surveys.
In a new AP-NORC poll, 85% of all Americans believe the country is headed in the wrong direction, with 92% of Republicans believing this to be true and 78% of Democrats agreeing.
On July 5, a Monmouth poll reported that President Joe Biden’s approval rating had sunk to 36%, with 59% disapproving of his presidency.
As for our Democratic-led Congress, 15% of all Americans approved of its performance, with 85% disapproving.
Another Gallup survey from July 5 reported that this last year has seen a fall in public confidence in every one of 16 major U.S. institutions.
The institutions in which Americans now place the least confidence are the presidency, newspapers, the criminal justice system, big business, television news and, at rock bottom, Congress. Only 7% of Americans have great confidence or quite a bit of confidence in Capitol Hill.
The institutions that enjoy the greatest measures of confidence — though here, too, the levels are receding like Lake Mead — are small business, the military, the police, the medical system and religious institutions.
That small business is the most trusted of American institutions suggests that Biden’s attack on the alleged greed of gas station owners may not be politically wise.
American institutions that tend to be conservative — small business, the military, cops — are where the American people repose the greatest confidence. Journalistic institutions — newspapers and TV news — both largely liberal, appear to be ones in which the nation reposes the lowest levels of confidence and the greatest deposits of distrust.
Why are Americans so down on their country and disapproving of its direction, and of their president who is leading them?
Surely, the pandemic, which has taken a million lives in 30 months and infects 10 times as many of us today as it did a year ago, with the death toll roughly the same now as then, is a primary cause.
The crisis at the Mexican border where a quarter of a million illegal migrants enter our country, uninvited, every month, with cartel mules ferrying the fentanyl and other narcotics that kill tens of thousands of young Americans every year is surely another.
Then there is the worst inflation in 40 years and the record rise in the price of food and fuel for America’s families.
Also, since the first of the year, there have been an average of 10 “mass shootings” a week, where a criminal gunman wounds or kills four or more victims. Major atrocities like Buffalo, New York; Uvalde, Texas; and Highland Park, Illinois, dominate the news for days.
And each weekend seems to bring a new casualty report of the dead and wounded from Chicago’s streets that reminds us of the early days of Vietnam.
Then there is the poisonous character of American politics.
In the 2016 campaign, Hillary Clinton famously described half of the supporters of Donald Trump as a “basket of deplorables.”
They are, said Hillary, “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic … irredeemable … bigots” all.
Following the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade and sending the issue of abortion back to the states for decision, the term “fascist” has been applied by the left to its right-to-life opponents.
Which makes one wonder.
If Republicans capture two or three dozen House seats in this fall’s midterm elections, would that constitute a triumph of American fascism?
And how does the left argue that we should come together and stand on “common ground” with folks such as those Clinton describes?
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Open the fucking borders more, I think there are still some IQ65 central africans we haven’t imported yet.
Actually want to fix the country?
1. Utterly destroy jewish power. Banking, media, etc..
2. Deport all the non-whites, including the jews.
3. Execute all the treasonous filth that cause the mess.
Rid the government of power and their power dwindles rapidly. Not that your thoughts don’t have merit.
Just think of how wonderful things might have been either with two nations post 1860, or better yet, hundreds of independent nation states free from the DC boot on their necks. It is because of this desperate need to hold this shitshow together by force that we cannot have an honest or worthwhile discussion about peaceful separation (or more peaceful).
IMHO, there is no common ground, but the uni-party believes there is, and that’s the problem.
“1 in 3 Americans…” I wonder if those are the same as the so-called unvaxxed.
I was at the Trump rally on Saturday, and it was an amazing day of getting together with over 5,000 fellow Alaskans who were all there to support freedom. We talked about all the things we do on TBP; guns, face masks, the plandemic, Fauci, Trudeau, the global tyranny, etc.. I met some new Alaskans who just go here from California. I welcomed and introduced them to everyone. We gave them a warm welcome to freedom, and man were they happy to be here. They were able to get through Canada, unvaxxed. They had 3 days to get to AK or they were notified they would be doing jail time. It was awesome to see a young couple of 19 and 21 who love freedom as much as I do. We talked about the vaxxed, and I let them know it makes men and woman sterile and infertile maybe forever. I told them the last thing you ever do is vax as there has never been a good vaccine. But good vaccine propaganda. Yes, for my fellow BPers. Alaska is alive and free, for now, and we have the most awesome scenery in the USA/World.
Sounds like you had an awesome time.
The waiting in line and chatting it up with people who love freedom was awesome and educational.
Educational? Anything outside of your echos?
One of the earlier symptoms, pat…
“Mr. Buchanan was a member of the official US delegation to the Peoples Republic of China in 1972, and”…need i quote more?
So, you got over being Russo-phobic but got caught in the Ching Chong one? What a shame.
How come Pat never addresses the WEPH/NWO/Beast System?
It is worth discussing, isn’t it?
“It is worth discussing, isn’t it?”
Best to keep Family discussions strictly in the Family?
I am no longer proud to be an American. I am proud of some of my people, and the promise of the rest of them but they have a lot of work to do. Drugs, tats, porn, grub, electronics, promiscuous sex, bad grammar, bad clothing, poor habits, have afflicted them. The Great Awakening/Restoration of the American Nation must be personal as well as societal.
The first thing you need to do to understand this discussion, is to define what a nation is. A nation is not government, it is not a land mass, it is not authority, it is a collection of people who believe in the same basic political principals.
The political principals this country was founded on, were individual sovereignty, and freedom and rights that are our natural inheritance because of that sovereignty.
The vast majority of the people in America no longer cherish individual sovereignty, and instead are consumed with getting as much material wealth as they can, preferably without having to actually earn it.
We are a corrupt and unethical society, and it is not possible to have a country that is both corrupt and prosperous.
The problem is not the government, the problem is the citizens, as the government could not exist without the consent of the people.
We no longer deserve to be free or prosperous, because we have lost the moral compass for which which we would use to stand on principals.
That’s civnat faggotry at it’s worst. That is the stupidity that opened our borders to the subhuman filth of the third world. No, a nation is a cohesive ethnic block.
I live in an ugly country, made that way by throwing the doors wide open and the rules out the window.
My country is full of diverse fat, dissatisfied, offended people.
I used to use a capital “c” when referencing my country….as in “My Country tis of thee,”
Now everyone is too stupid to notice anyway.
Love ya Pat but get your critical plandemic stats right. We don’t have a million deaths, not close. What we do have are maybe 50000 Covid ONLY deaths (using the still used 6% number per Coroner reports) and the rest are dead from the genocidal injection. This is a critical distinction.