Declining pride in America is a mistake the left wants us all to make

Pride in being an American drops the younger you get, a new Quinnipiac poll confirms — a fact that confirms what a terrible job older generations have done at teaching the young.Or, rather, what a horribly successful job one part of those generations (the left) has done at smearing a country that in fact remains the most free and successful nation the world has ever known.The Q-poll numbers, from a sample of over 1,300 adults nationwide, are stark: Do you consider yourself a proud American?Overall, it’s “yes” by 73% to 22% “no,” but the divide narrows over time.For those over 65, it’s 91%-7%, dropping steadily among younger cohorts to just 56% to 27% among those aged 18 to 34.No surprise: Republicans are much more likely to be proud (97%-2%) than Democrats (61-35%) — which neatly points to where the negativity comes from.Starting in the late 1960s, the left has come to dominate America’s universities and K-12 curricula, too, emphasizing the country’s imperfections without the important context of what every other nation has managed to achieve.And, indeed, all too often promoting outright lies, as in The New York Times-produced “1619” curriculum that massively misrepresents slavery as the country’s hidden “true” founding principle, rather than a horrific deviation from those principles that even slaveholding Founding Fathers regretted.To be clear: It’s not at all wrong to teach kids about Malcolm X, Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, My Lai, Wounded Knee, the Pullman Strike of 1894, Joe McCarthy or the Rosenbergs (who were guilty, by the way) — but don’t leave out Andrew Jackson, Lewis and Clark, Sam Houston, George Marshall, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and so on.Not to mention Alexander Hamilton.Democrats from Jackson to FDR to JFK would be appalled at how little pride modern Dems take in their country.Remember that the United States saved the world twice last century, first from the Nazis and then from the Soviet Communists.T...