Americans have grown less proud of their country’s history or the way its democracy works over the past decade, according to a new AP-NORC poll.
Americans’ pride in the U.S. on several key attributes has dropped since 2017 — including the nation’s military and its political influence around the globe — according to the survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. This poll was conducted in April, as the United States and Iran fought over the Strait of Hormuz in a prolonged war that started with the U.S. and Israel launching strikes on Iran.
New Gallup polling also finds that only 53% of U.S. adults are “extremely” or “very” proud to be an American, the lowest reading in the trend dating back to 2001.
I really hope like the galactic equivalent of the USS enterprise shows up and is just like “what in the fuck are you morons doing?”
We wouldn’t be anywhere close to qualifying for admission into the federation. They require a stable world government.
Oh no I was thinking more like a lost ship or something stumbles on earth. Given the choice they’d probably take one look and move on.
In the show they landed in plenty of authoritarian versions of Earth.
Even Picard’s god-awful season 2 went into the absurdities of the US’s medical industry and the treatment of immigrants.
Voyager also had a 2-parter with a 90s US techbro as the villain.