Gallup produced its annual Fourth of July poll showing that Americans, mostly Democrats, are less “extremely proud” to be an American in the last 20 years. When you consider since 74-year-old President Donald Trump was elected Jan. 20, 2017 that the media has been 95% negative reporting according to a Harvard University study, it’s no wonder Democrats would be less proud to be Americans. Add to that recent racial unrest and the media’s view that Trump favors white supremacy, Democrat Party’s Election Years strategy, it’s no surprise at all that a party that represents minorities find themselves less satisfied with being an American. Gallup’s poll doesn’t ask respondents where they’d prefer to live or, during the Obama administration, whether or not they were more proud to be American. Since Trump was elected president, the media has been very negative about the country.
Constant media exposure of negative reporting about Trump brainwashes the public into believing things must be very bad. When politics infects the newsroom, it’s bad news for American news consumers that tend to parrot back what’s reported. Trump delivered a sobering speech and rousing fireworks show at Mt. Rushmore July 3, telling the audience that violent protesters are trying erase American history. Black Lives Matter [BLM] has the media’s attention today, unable to report anything critical about the largely Marxist group that backs desecration of U.S. historical monuments depicting anything they deem racist, including such American iconic presidents as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt, all carved into Mt. Rushmore’s granite cliffs. Black Lives Matter wants all American iconic figures removed from public display.
Because there’s no push back against he current mass hysteria over U.S. history, the media gives its backing to looting, vandalism, arson and anarchy, all part of protesting the May 25 murder of 46-year-old George Floyd by former Minneapolis cop 44-year-old Derek Chauvin. No one backs the slaughter of innocents, whether black, white or any other color, but Trump pointed out that Black Lives Matter seeks to erase American history, a system of government like no other in the world with all its flaws and blemishes. Trump vowed that under his watch he will protect historic monuments, statues and coveted national treasures. Since Floyd’s death, numerous monuments and statues have been torn down, even witnessing defacing of Washington D.C.’s Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials. Yet the media reports Trump Mt. Rushmore event as hate speech because he doesn’t back anarchy in U.S. streets.
Gallup’s poll shows that 22% of Democrats are “extremely proud” to be Americans, compared with 76% of Republicans. If that’s not a warning to the American press that thinks they’re doing the country a favor allowing Democrat politics to contaminate their newsrooms, then what is? Gallup’s poll gives the real effect of a negative American media, literally driving its population to riots, lending support to an angry mob thinking it’s OK to riot, vandalize, loot, arson and otherwise lawless behavior. Hidden in the meaning of Gallup’s poll is a warning to Democrats pumped up by their own polling that shows Trump losing to 77-year-old Democrat presumptive nominee Joe Biden. Democrat and media messaging gives protesters a license for street violence, something not guaranteed by the First Amendment. Gallup’s poll found 41% of independents are “extremely proud” to be American.
What’s clear from the last month’s street protests and anarchy over Floyd’s murders is that the media supports it, without openly saying they back the violence. When it came to Black Lives Matter and Antifa’s takeover of Seattle’s “CHOP” zone in the Capitol Hill neighborhood, the media found it glamorous, amused by life under anarchist control. Once murders took place and City officials assumed more liability, the media backed off its tacit approval. If Gallup took the same poll but asked Democrats whether they approved of seizing a Seattle neighborhood, they’d get the same result, with Democrats approving and Republicans opposing the actions. With Democrats controlling the media today, it’s no wonder that only 22% of Democrats are “very proud” to be Americans. Individuals of lower socioeconomic status tend to back revolutionary movements, especially if promised redistribution of wealth.
Gallup’s poll speaks volumes about a Democrat Party take over of the mainstream media, looking to do anything to deny Trump a second term. Let there be no mistake, patriotism isn’t at a low point not because of coronavirus or recent race riots but because the media presents a one-sided view backing the Democrat Party. “Record-low American patriotism is the latest casualty of the sharply polarized political climate in the U.S. today,” Gallup said, trying to interpret the results. Yet with 76% of Republicans “extremely proud” of being American compared with only 22% of Democrats it tells a very different story about media influence. Gallup misinterprets its own poll saying “neither party group; feels proud of the U.S.,” when the poll shows 76% of Republicans feeling “very proud” to be American. Gallup tries but fails to deal with its own left-wing media bias, even when its poll says otherwise.
