The pro-Libertarian Cato Institute conducted a survey with Morning Consult among 2,253 adults nationwide. They found that 46% of Americans do not know that the nation’s 250th anniversary commemorates the adoption of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Just 53% correctly identified the historic event.
Thanks, education department (sarcasm).
There is a lot of good news. Democrats have a favorable view of America’s founding, according to this survey, and most believe the principles established by the Founding Fathers are relevant.
More negative findings are that Democrats believe the 1619 lie that the American Revolution was fought to continue slavery, which is utter nonsense. Additionally, Democrats support packing the Court and would vote for the communists posing as Democrat Socialists.
Some of it is much better than most polls. It could be that many of these polls are propagandized to push an ideology.
The Good News
The poll found 86% are grateful to be Americans, while 79% say they are proud to be American.
More than three-quarters (76%) have a favorable view of America’s founding, and 70% believe the principles established by the Founding Fathers remain relevant today.
Nearly 86% say the Constitution is important for protecting Americans’ rights and freedoms, while 82% believe it has been essential to America’s prosperity. At the same time, many Americans worry the country has drifted away from those ideals.
The survey found that 57% believe the United States has moved away from its founding principles, and 56% fear America could lose its freedom sometime during the next 50 years.
More than 81% of Democrats and 86% of Republicans hold favorable views of America’s founding, while 72% of Democrats and 83% of Republicans believe the nation’s founding principles remain relevant today.
The Downers
Democrats (46%) are more likely than Republicans (36%) to believe the 1619 Project’s claim that preserving slavery was a primary reason for the American Revolution.
Democrats (51%) are more supportive than Republicans (37%) of expanding the Supreme Court from nine to 13 justices. That’s bad. It will politicize the Supreme Court and make it an arm of the Democrat Party.
Democrats (61%) are far more likely than Republicans to support candidates identifying as “Democratic Socialists.” That is truly disturbing. The Democrat Socialists are communists.
Republicans are substantially more optimistic about America’s future, with 54% saying the nation’s best days are ahead, while 44% of Democrats believe America’s best days are behind it.
