Quote:America is a beautiful place for so many reasons. Beautiful cities, scenery, and people. The beauty of the American people is that, while we are all very different, we like to believe there are certain things — certain values and ideals — that are important to all of us. But are there really? A new poll may offer some surprising, and some not-so-surprising, answers.

A new Gallup poll asked 3,000 U.S. adults between May 12 and 22 of this year about the values Americans share and which ones the country needs most. Given a list of 12 values, 76 percent identified at least one they believed was shared by most Americans, regardless of politics or background. Fifty-nine percent identified at least two shared values, while 46 percent identified three or more.

As for which values Americans believe they still share, disturbingly, things like honesty, integrity, and even courage came in at just 13 percent each. Not so surprising, in the age of social media, where Americans put their entire lives on TikTok, humility came in even lower at 10 percent. What also may be problem number one, a result of not just social media, but at least two generations of Americans being taught in public schools that "diversity is our strength," 79 percent said that it is more important to respect different values, with 19 percent saying it is more important for Americans to share the same values. Among Democrats, 84 percent said it was important; 81 percent of independents, and another troubling statistic, 72 percent of Republicans.

As you might expect, when things get broken down by political party is where things got really interesting, and also tell you a whole lot about where the country is, and it's not good. Asked which three values the country most needs today, Democrats selected honesty, responsibility, and integrity at 32, 24, and 29 percent, respectively. Responsibility and integrity are understandable for people who want the government to take care of them from cradle to grave, and integrity is a problem when you are okay with dead people and illegal immigrants voting in elections. Those values came in at 38, 41, and 33 percent, respectively, among Republicans.

Problem number two is this, and it is serious: Just six percent of Democrats named patriotism among the three values the country most needs today, compared with 46 percent of Republicans. What is most important to Democrats? Equality at 44 percent.

Even though the poll was conducted in May, six months before the midterm election, it may as well have been conducted last week. Democrats have embraced Democratic Socialist (communist) candidates who appear to have no love for the country, and their well-telegraphed agenda, should they regain power, contains nothing but impeachments and investigations, nothing that will help Americans. Republicans, on the other hand, know what is at stake if those candidates get elected.

In a heated election season, many people are skeptical of polls. But if the data in this poll is accurate, America's problem is laid out in stark terms. If our placement on the importance of values is that far apart, surviving another 250 years could be problem number three.

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Color me shocked. Many of the respondents probably grew up under the tutelage of our highly vaunted public school system over the last two decades, three if I'm being honest. It produced too many of exactly the kinds of adults that democrats so badly need to gain power: undereducated and badly propagandized or conditioned. They cannot remember a time when there were no cellphones or internet and social media became their babysitters; that influence is strong.

The numbers reflect 25 years of GRU social media poisoning.

The tactic is to find slight differences and drive wedges.

(10-27-2026 09:00 AM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:  Color me shocked. Many of the respondents probably grew up under the tutelage of our highly vaunted public school system over the last two decades, three if I'm being honest. It produced too many of exactly the kinds of adults that democrats so badly need to gain power: undereducated and badly propagandized or conditioned. They cannot remember a time when there were no cellphones or internet and social media became their babysitters; that influence is strong.

Not just a partisan divide. The indies seem to track closer to the left than the right. Not good for our country's future, if one values what we have always been.

(10-27-2026 09:05 AM)TripleA Wrote:  Not just a partisan divide. The indies seem to track closer to the left than the right. Not good for our country's future, if one values what we have always been.

The right has gone further right without noticing.

Notice that more and more people on MAGA villain lists are conservatives?

That’s why.

(10-27-2026 09:05 AM)TripleA Wrote:  

(10-27-2026 09:00 AM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:  Color me shocked. Many of the respondents probably grew up under the tutelage of our highly vaunted public school system over the last two decades, three if I'm being honest. It produced too many of exactly the kinds of adults that democrats so badly need to gain power: undereducated and badly propagandized or conditioned. They cannot remember a time when there were no cellphones or internet and social media became their babysitters; that influence is strong.

Not just a partisan divide. The indies seem to track closer to the left than the right. Not good for our country's future, if one values what we have always been.

Civil War and National Divorce is the only solution at this point.

(10-27-2026 09:09 AM)Gitanole Wrote:  

(10-27-2026 09:05 AM)TripleA Wrote:  Not just a partisan divide. The indies seem to track closer to the left than the right. Not good for our country's future, if one values what we have always been.

The right has gone further right without noticing.

Notice that more and more people on MAGA villain lists are conservatives?

That’s why.

No, it’s the idiots on the left who’ve moved further left. DSA, free healthcare, open borders are all leftist platform ideas in the last 10-15 years. You people are all kooks and low life losers wanting everyone else to take care of your worthless trash asses. Normal sane people are now considered “far right”

So Gitanole says the right has moved further out, but says nothing about his own wing, the left moving further out as well.

Got it.

Most Independents are closeted leftists who don't want to associate with the Democrat Party.

I'm an Independent, but I'm still going ro vote Republican even though the Republican Party won't improve my quality of life.

Because, the alternative is ten inherently worse.

(10-27-2026 09:15 AM)BirdHawkEagle Wrote:  

(10-27-2026 09:05 AM)TripleA Wrote:  Not just a partisan divide. The indies seem to track closer to the left than the right. Not good for our country's future, if one values what we have always been.

Civil War and National Divorce is the only solution at this point.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/radicalize

I'd rather be radicalized than be a cucked out guilt ridden white leftist.

What verbose word salad are you going to vomit up as your rebuttal?

(10-27-2026 09:15 AM)MemTigers1998 Wrote:  

(10-27-2026 09:09 AM)Gitanole Wrote:  

(10-27-2026 09:05 AM)TripleA Wrote:  Not just a partisan divide. The indies seem to track closer to the left than the right. Not good for our country's future, if one values what we have always been.

The right has gone further right without noticing.

Notice that more and more people on MAGA villain lists are conservatives?

That’s why.

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No, it’s the idiots on the left who’ve moved further left.
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“Lefties” like John McCain, Bill Barr, Tucker Carlson, George Will, Liz Cheney, Mike Pence, George W. Bush, Mark Miller, Mitt Romney...

The further out you go, the longer your list gets.



https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/radicalize
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You mean closeted Democrats.

That's who the ones you listed are.

Quote:First They Came
by Martin Niemöller


First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me.

Oh please, Gitanole.

Spare us your persecuted mindset.

Your side wants to wipe out half the country who doesn't think like them.

Don't believe me? Ask this creature.

https://www.jns.org/news/u-s-news/at-dac...ers-belong

I was brought up that the most important things in life were God, family, and country, in that order. It took with me, it took hard. I don't always keep them in the correct order, but I believe in the concept.

I was driving to work on 9/11, way back when, when the Towers were attacked. I had to pull over on the side of the road, shaking with rage and grief. I came by these feelings honestly. My father was a war hero, I have his many medals. He was not a perfect man but he was a Patriot, and he taught me to be one too. There was no house he ever lived in that did not have an American Flag displayed prominently. RIP Chief.

Fast forward. I was driving to Memphis just the other day listening to the radio. Toby Keith came on, singing that song, you know the one, that goes "We'll put a boot in your ass, it's the American way", and I felt a tear roll down my cheek. I wondered why. I thought at first it was because I was a big Toby Keith fan, and he was taken from us way too soon. After I thought about it, I realized the tear wasn't so much about Toby being gone as it was the country he was singing about in that song may very well be gone.

There's a point, probably lost in this, and here it is.

If you don't love this country, why the fck don't you leave it? We will not miss you.

(10-27-2026 09:09 AM)Gitanole Wrote:  

(10-27-2026 09:05 AM)TripleA Wrote:  Not just a partisan divide. The indies seem to track closer to the left than the right. Not good for our country's future, if one values what we have always been.

The right has gone further right without noticing.

Notice that more and more people on MAGA villain lists are conservatives?

That’s why.

The left has gone so far left, they are right (Nazi, totalitarian, use 1984 as a guidebook).

(10-27-2026 09:32 AM)BirdHawkEagle Wrote:  Oh please, Gitanole.

Spare us your persecuted mindset.

Your side wants to wipe out half the country who doesn't think like them.

Don't believe me? Ask this creature.

https://www.jns.org/news/u-s-news/at-dac...ers-belong

So you are telling me what I “think” and what I “want to do,” and you are showing me a link to prove to me it is what I think and want to do if I happen to believe you got it wrong.

Does that seem logical to you?

It's called guilt by association, Gitanole.

You yourself may not want to see Trump supporter murdered en masses.

But, the rest of your left wing brethren do.

Hence the article.

I know you didn't read it. Not surprised.

(10-27-2026 09:45 AM)bullet Wrote:  

(10-27-2026 09:09 AM)Gitanole Wrote:  

(10-27-2026 09:05 AM)TripleA Wrote:  Not just a partisan divide. The indies seem to track closer to the left than the right. Not good for our country's future, if one values what we have always been.

The right has gone further right without noticing.

Notice that more and more people on MAGA villain lists are conservatives?

That’s why.

The left has gone so far left, they are right (Nazi, totalitarian, use 1984 as a guidebook).

Except nazis weren't right wing. That is lie you've bought. Please name a totalitarian right wing government.

The prog filth left is exactly where they've always been. You have to be totalitarian to force people to give up freedom. The economic strategies of the left fall under fascism, socialism and communism. Nobody in their right mind submits to that shite freely.