Poll: American pride falls to lowest level in decades

[Larry the boss]

I love the concept of America and what it once represented but I don't know what the word means anymore.

I'm not surprised its falling for **********s as well.

When you see men defending statues of your founding fathers from armed, masked hammer/sickle mobs and the police arrest the men standing in their way then passively watch the vandalism, you feel like real patriotism is a desire to save the functional parts by splitting away from the ***********al parts.

it is 2020, why would we keep up statues of rapist, murderers and slave traders? how does that make sense?

[MOTHERDUCKER]

it is 2020, why would we keep up statues of rapist, murderers and slave traders? how does that make sense?

Funny coming from a guy who defends thugs.. murderers and rapists to the death if they just happened to be killed by Police

[Rip Chudd]

Weird, cause gay pride seems to be on the rise. Thanks *****

[Larry the boss]

Funny coming from a guy who defends thugs.. murderers and rapists to the death if they just happened to be killed by Police

What armed suspect have I ever defended?? Police job is to arrest not to try and hand out sentences in the streets

[VegasMichael]

Probably not the best time to have a poll like this. A lot of sheit has gone down this year.

[billeau2]

All these Unpatriotic ******** should be deported to a country of their ancestry

That would be to places like: the republic of Stamford Conneticut, the swankier areas of Florida, etc.

many of the people in this struggle are privaleged. The kids on fifth avenue have much more in common with the poor black kids raised in single family households, maybe that is why they have bonded...I don't know. My wife used to see the nice lemon pledge smelling 5th avenue upper crust Anglo Saxons on "family night" while she waitressed on Madison Ave. It was "the night" they went out together, the whole family...the one night the maid did not cook dinner after picking the kid up from school... You could tell they loved each other dearly...well... ok maybe not.

More like, you could tell they wanted to take the kid's head off and put it in a bowling ball as they hissed at staff "he wants pasta with no sauce!!!!!! Can you do that!!!!?"

I could well imagine on my side of Madison Ave, kids like the kids I grew up with coming home to a stressed out mother, meanwhile on 5th avenue? well at least my friends got to see their mothers... Dalton and Fred? would only get yelled at by the nanny. As these kids grew up...The poor kids sometimes got into drugs, and felt ***************, just like the kids on 5th avenue... Whether winding up in a fancy rehab facility, or in an uncle's basement tied to an old sofa, left to "kick it" for three days, the goal was the same.

And while the kids on 5th avenue could never find meaning...even with nice things, and after rubbing elbows, and perhaps a bit more, at a fancy boarding schools en route to the Ivy leagues... So many of them left their trust funds to grow and slummed it and developed a passion for the cause...How dare those white people of privalege systematically racially oppress the black man! Irony? Or just plain blindness. Who knows?

meanwhile on the other side of the tracks...kids like the kids I grew up with, after dealing with the kind of cops that seem to give all cops a bad name in places like Philly and New York, after not being given entree to places that had the fast track and all the Bells and Whistles... had enough. Never mind that in the system for all its ills, with decent grades and a will, many of these kids could write their ticket. Never mind that even in the most impoverished urban ****** in this country, there was food, social programs for those with initiative, medical care and education... There was also that systematic oppression...It was everywhere!!!

make no mistake about it my friend...these two groups are as American as Apple Pie. The Rich trust fund radicals have parents that climbed off the Mayfair. The kids in my neighborhood were born and raised here, not in Africa, Puerto Rico, or any other place.

meanwhile, those of us who work with what we got...Who truly have to fight the system. The many smart immigrants that come to the United States and say "f u ck your ****** jobs and banks that take capital and call it "savings"... Im opening a dry cleaners, a restaurant and working hard..." Along with those of us in that same middle class who try to work against a system that economically OPPRESSES US ALL, with banks that are given money and will not lend, mortgage lenders who will take your house real fast, and the total calousnes of these f aggot mayors who all look like female/male snowflakes and say "sorry your business burned but your an oppressor," and do not for a moment see the real oppression. They don't have to rebuild a business why should they care. Easier to just call you an oppressor.

The real oppressors are not people who are trying to work hard and ask for protection when trust fund babies destroy their business. The real oppressors are not people, of all colors, who are sick of a police force that has no training, and brutalizes individuals because top down policies mandate such actions...For the most part it is not the cop's fault.

The real oppressors are a minority of individuals who are dissatisfied with their selves and have found a way to take it out on others who have succeded, despite the roadblocks because...at the end of the day it is easier to succeed in this country than any other country... Even with banks that won't lend, mayors that will let people destroy your business, and being called an oppressor by people who have never even tried to fight the system.

Legitimate protesters are not the problem. I don't see them destroying businesses. And the anger that generated from places like Fergusan Missouri is understandable. It was shown that systematic oppression had made those peoples' lives a living hell. Change had to come and it did.

No, the people that cause the problem come primarily from two classes, both of which have too much time on their hands frankly and have been spoiled by the virtues of entitlement. That entitlement comes in many forms. It can be wealthy families, or a dependence on government for all things. Both groups share a sense of outrage, not at oppression like they say they do, but at people who have fought the system and been a success. neither group can believe that someone can make it without privalege, a secret handshake.

Legitimate protesters who assemble peacefully, do not speak in the glib empty rhetoric of the state, but are legitimately sick of poorly trained police as opposed to those who destroy what others built, and who want to accuse others of privalege when they themselves are wallowing in it.

But make no mistake about it...these are not foreign born agents...

[Luilun]

That would be to places like: the republic of Stamford Conneticut, the swankier areas of Florida, etc.

many of the people in this struggle are privaleged. The kids on fifth avenue have much more in common with the poor black kids raised in single family households, maybe that is why they have bonded...I don't know. My wife used to see the nice lemon pledge smelling 5th avenue upper crust Anglo Saxons on "family night" while she waitressed on Madison Ave. It was "the night" they went out together, the whole family...the one night the maid did not cook dinner after picking the kid up from school... You could tell they loved each other dearly...well... ok maybe not.

More like, you could tell they wanted to take the kid's head off and put it in a bowling ball as they hissed at staff "he wants pasta with no sauce!!!!!! Can you do that!!!!?"

I could well imagine on my side of Madison Ave, kids like the kids I grew up with coming home to a stressed out mother, meanwhile on 5th avenue? well at least my friends got to see their mothers... Dalton and Fred? would only get yelled at by the nanny. As these kids grew up...The poor kids sometimes got into drugs, and felt ***************, just like the kids on 5th avenue... Whether winding up in a fancy rehab facility, or in an uncle's basement tied to an old sofa, left to "kick it" for three days, the goal was the same.

And while the kids on 5th avenue could never find meaning...even with nice things, and after rubbing elbows, and perhaps a bit more, at a fancy boarding schools en route to the Ivy leagues... So many of them left their trust funds to grow and slummed it and developed a passion for the cause...How dare those white people of privalege systematically racially oppress the black man! Irony? Or just plain blindness. Who knows?

meanwhile on the other side of the tracks...kids like the kids I grew up with, after dealing with the kind of cops that seem to give all cops a bad name in places like Philly and New York, after not being given entree to places that had the fast track and all the Bells and Whistles... had enough. Never mind that in the system for all its ills, with decent grades and a will, many of these kids could write their ticket. Never mind that even in the most impoverished urban ****** in this country, there was food, social programs for those with initiative, medical care and education... There was also that systematic oppression...It was everywhere!!!

make no mistake about it my friend...these two groups are as American as Apple Pie. The Rich trust fund radicals have parents that climbed off the Mayfair. The kids in my neighborhood were born and raised here, not in Africa, Puerto Rico, or any other place.

meanwhile, those of us who work with what we got...Who truly have to fight the system. The many smart immigrants that come to the United States and say "f u ck your ****** jobs and banks that take capital and call it "savings"... Im opening a dry cleaners, a restaurant and working hard..." Along with those of us in that same middle class who try to work against a system that economically OPPRESSES US ALL, with banks that are given money and will not lend, mortgage lenders who will take your house real fast, and the total calousnes of these f aggot mayors who all look like female/male snowflakes and say "sorry your business burned but your an oppressor," and do not for a moment see the real oppression. They don't have to rebuild a business why should they care. Easier to just call you an oppressor.

The real oppressors are not people who are trying to work hard and ask for protection when trust fund babies destroy their business. The real oppressors are not people, of all colors, who are sick of a police force that has no training, and brutalizes individuals because top down policies mandate such actions...For the most part it is not the cop's fault.

The real oppressors are a minority of individuals who are dissatisfied with their selves and have found a way to take it out on others who have succeded, despite the roadblocks because...at the end of the day it is easier to succeed in this country than any other country... Even with banks that won't lend, mayors that will let people destroy your business, and being called an oppressor by people who have never even tried to fight the system.

Legitimate protesters are not the problem. I don't see them destroying businesses. And the anger that generated from places like Fergusan Missouri is understandable. It was shown that systematic oppression had made those peoples' lives a living hell. Change had to come and it did.

No, the people that cause the problem come primarily from two classes, both of which have too much time on their hands frankly and have been spoiled by the virtues of entitlement. That entitlement comes in many forms. It can be wealthy families, or a dependence on government for all things. Both groups share a sense of outrage, not at oppression like they say they do, but at people who have fought the system and been a success. neither group can believe that someone can make it without privalege, a secret handshake.

Legitimate protesters who assemble peacefully, do not speak in the glib empty rhetoric of the state, but are legitimately sick of poorly trained police as opposed to those who destroy what others built, and who want to accuse others of privalege when they themselves are wallowing in it.

But make no mistake about it...these are not foreign born agents...

You sure have lots of time on your hand