American pride is now a partisan issue?
Trump differs tremendously from Reagan in his policy views and personal style. But he shares one key thing with his predecessor: Trump knows that whenever he wants, he can always trade on the Democrats' basic, underlying shame at being American.
Thirty years later, it's still ridiculously easy to evoke this feeling in them if one is so inclined, and yet it's a terrible look for a political party. This isn't how one wins elections:
"The Trump presidency... reinforced the national pride of older, whiter people, who tend to vote Republican, while inducing the opposite reaction in the younger, more diverse Democratic base. And with Trump again on the ballot, the 2020 election may hinge not on foreign policy, the economy or health care, but on pride — who gets to feel it, and why."
(And if it's not actually shame about being American, it's honestly not so easy to tell the difference.)
As an American... I don’t see how anyone can be “proud” to be American. Nationalism is spoon fed bullshit and our country is garbage and always has been. It’s funny because watching trump’s campaign was retarded. “Make America great again!” That had to be the dumbest shit I’d ever seen. Our country has a long ass history of being shitty and even to this day, we kill children during “wars” that our shit eating government created... and no one suffers consequences. Fuck America, we have a lot of shit to get together before we can be considered “great” by any stretch of the imagination.
There’s nothing to be “proud” of as far as being an American goes. Never has been, unfortunately.
Hopefully the future allows us to see a change where we actually do become great. We have the resources, our slavemasters just don’t have the will. :/
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