It's important to note that many of these Americans are "not proud" for vastly different reasons.<p>The takeaway here shouldn't be "look how low we've sunk with the X people in power". It should be about how even in a democracy, less than half of the voting public is happy. It's similar to the fact that Congress as a whole has an abysmal approval rating, while each individual Congressperson has a high approval rating among their constituents.
Look at how freaking close an incompetent reality show star came to overthrowing the expressed will of the voters. There's not a lot to feel good about.<p>We haven't DeTrumpified the nation yet... if he's not punished, then it was all just practice for next time.<p>[Edit] Oh... and the Republi-Cratic duopoly that infests Washington DC and exists mostly to suckle at the teat of lobbyists and the promise of future "consultant" gigs.<p>The whole experiment in government isn't looking to me like it's going to hold out much longer. I really hope I'm wrong. But we've got embedded growth obligations that haven't been addressed in our institutions.<p>Our infrastructure is nearing collapse. We've embarked on an insane project to turn all of our productive farmland into suburban sprawl, which in turn reduces the density of support infrastructure to the point where it can't possibly be maintained, dooming it to ever wider spread, and brown field inner cores.<p>[Edit2] Not to mention social media platforms - fracking our cultural fault lines, and commodifying the destruction of society.
The malaise that’s followed Joe Biden is something America hasn’t endured in 45 years.<p>With Trump we were mad and caught up in the daily circus, but with Biden the country just seems to be holding its collective breath until he’s gone. The administration just reeks of weakness and ineffectiveness. Take, for example, his proposal floated last week to suspend the federal gas tax - shot down before the initial reports had all been written.<p>The fall midterms aren’t going to help anything either.