Half Of Young Americans Believe U.S. Is Not ‘Greatest’ Country, Think U.S. Is Racist, Sexist, Survey Finds

By Joseph Curl

To hear former president Barack Obama tell it, America isn’t that exceptional (“I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism,” he said shortly after moving into the White House).

And to Obama, America is pretty racist (just this month Obama said “we are still confused, blind, shrouded with hate, anger, racism, mommy issues.”) What’s more, the mainstream media has been painting President Trump as an avowed racist since before he took office.

So it should come as no surprise that the young people of today don’t think America is the “greatest” country, but they do think the nation is racist.

In a survey of 1,078 Americans, conducted by polling firm YouGov and sponsored by the Foundation for Liberty and American Greatness (FLAG), finds that younger Americans (under 38 years old – Gen Z and Millennials), also think America is sexist. Some 46% of those polled don’t agree that “America is the greatest country in the world,” half (50%) think the U.S. is sexist, 49% say the country is racist and 47% say America’s future should be driven by socialism over capitalism.

Among the survey’s other findings:

– 38% of younger Americans do not agree that “America has a history that we should be proud of”

– One in eight (14%) of millennials agree that “America was never a great country and it never will be”

– 46% of younger Americans agree that “America is more racist than other countries”

– 84% of Americans do not know the specific rights enumerated in the First Amendment

– 19% of millennials believe that the American flag is “a sign of intolerance and hatred”

– 44% of younger Americans believe Barack Obama had a “bigger impact” on America than George Washington

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“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. said Nick Adams, Founder of FLAG.

“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,” Adams said.

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MSNBC’s Eddie Glaude: “I Overestimated White People,” I Didn’t Think They Would Put Trump In Office

By Ian Schwartz

Professor Eddie Glaude Jr. said he “overestimated” white people in 2016 and didn’t think they would put someone like Donald Trump in office. Glaude expressed fear of a Trump loss and what the president and his supporters will do. He also accused the president of “doubling down” on the rhetoric that caused the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting by introducing the Fourteenth Amendment to the discussion.

“Nothing is going to get better after this midterm,” Glaude said Wednesday on MSNBC. “Everything is going to get more intense, and it may even get worse. But let me say this. Not only did he not do all the things you just laid out. He introduced birthright citizenship. He doubled down. He doubled down on what motivated them to go in there and kill 11 people. He doubled down like a moral monster.”

EDDIE GLAUDE JR.: I was critical of Hillary Clinton and get hemmed up on Twitter every day for criticizing Donald Trump because people believe I’m responsible, in part, for Donald Trump being in the White House. What I did wrong in 2016 is I overestimated white people. I didn’t think white people would put him in office.

So here he is running around the country appealing to our darker angels, appealing to our hatred and fears and I’m supposed to believe that Delaware County in Ohio is not going to vote for him. That the suburbs in Pennsylvania aren’t going to vote for him? Aren’t going to vote for him in Florida?

So part of what I do know is that it’s going to require young people, it’s going to require people of color, it’s going to require African-Americans like they showed up in Alabama and Virginia. It’s going to require us to turn out in massive numbers because I made a mistake in 2016. And the evidence is not in yet. I know it sounds cynical, but this man doubled down after 11 beautiful people were shot and killed while worshiping. Jefferson Town, Kentucky, murdered, shot in the back of the head for what? For what? Some ideal of whiteness that Donald Trump represents and spews out of his mouth every single day.

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