Hold it, is learning any history considered woke now? 🤔

Despite civic ignorance, overwhelming majorities are grateful (86%) and proud (79%) to be Americans. Most also believe America is a land of opportunity (61%), and even more believe the American Dream (74%) is available to them personally.

big lol

The day we fought back the aliens. WELCOME TO EARTH

Dismantling public education is going as planned

In case no one has seen the study, the issue is people don't know which part of the revolution is tied to independence day, not they are clueless of what is going on.

In multiple choice responses were:

53% Adoption of Declaration of Independance

23% unsure

8% Ratification of Constitution

6% Victory of the Revolutionary War

5% Election of first President

3% Prilgrims landing on Plymouth Rock

1% Founding of Jamestown

Oh man, I thought they meant Americans felt ambivalent as they wrestled with the promise of the american experiment, held up against the reality of our history and the revealed flaws in our society and system of government. And I was like "yeah, I get it".

Turns out we're just dumb, lol

For those of you not aware of the fundamental bias in this statement, the CATO institute is a far right think tank funded by the Koch Brothers. They would rather say that America is dumb than admit that american policies are a failure.

We will not go quietly into the night. We will not vanish without a fight. We're going to live on. We're going to survive. Today, we celebrate our independence day.

-- George Washington or something (according to half the country)

I don't give a fuck what the Cato Institute finds. They can shut the fuck up and get back to gargling Newt Gingrich's balls while he's still breathing.

To be fair, I know what the day marks, but I also don't know what the fuck were celebrating.

This country is in the shitter, we're headed for very dark times even if we can defeat the Republicans this year and retake the house and senate.

Garbage survey designed to illicit a bad result that they'll toss around to rile the base.

The 4th of July is obviously the day when Jesus, Columbus and Superman beat Karl Marx and Hitler! Duh!

While I have read the Declaration of Independence, it was well before President Pedo's first term, and I don't have it memorized.

I was making breakfast a few days ago and listening to the History That Doesn't Suck podcast. For the lead up to the 4th, they read the Declaration of Independence.

Given the opportunity to listen and think about it just then, it was shocking just how many of the offenses the Founding Fathers listed this administration is engaging in.

Only 61 percent correctly identified Great Britain as the nation from which the 13 colonies declared independence 250 years ago

Was "Britain" and "United Kingdom" options?

Because it's more understandable if everyone who answered "British" or "Britain" or "UK" were marked as "wrong"

What to celebrate, you got to be kidding.

Trump making 2 billion dollars grifting the American people!

No? how about

Women can't get proper pregnancy care anymore because of big scary abortions!

Not your style, maybe

Trans people have to submit to genital inspections from bigoted conservative males to use the restroom!

Perhaps this

Our greatest ally Isreal is nearly complete with their genocide!

Maybe something more festive for the holidays

The US has blown up over 60 civilian ships murdering countless innocents in celebration of our 250 anniversary!

Of course we do it’s when George Washington took over the airports and rammed the ramparts after Hitler invaded Boston Market and teabagged everyone

Bullshit

and some of us know exactly what july 4th 1894 means

eat shit shocking poll, it’s an excuse to spend time with family the rest of it never meant a damn thing unless you’re a rich white land owner

Why is there no source for the poll? This seems like a purposeful oversight.

I celebrate that finger I blew off last year while I was celebrating that finger I blew of the year before.

America! Fuck yeah!

I thought it was Trump’s birthday, right?

Trust me, the rest of the world is trying to figure that out too.

I celebrate not working 🤷

Sorry but I can't see Cato without adding Sicarius to the end.

Celebrating hamburgers!

release of the Epstein files

This year they sem to be celebrating Trump. That's how stupid the majority of the American people are.
So they will either join or stay away on that basis.

Culturcide - Star Spangled Banner

Culturcide summed it up in 1986 in 1 minute 15 seconds.

the 4th of July is not some kind of gay holiday

"WERE CELEBRATING 'MURRICA AND THAT'S ALL THAT MATTERS!"

'murricans probably

fight capitalism, and fight oppression- all day. every day. fuck the usa and may it rot away and reset.

also, apropos of nothing other than this burger joint is playing country music, while i wait for my food, fuck country music too. ❤️

I always thought it was a celebration of when we beat the aliens.

I used to have a hard time believing stats like this until I heard about the illiteracy crisis in American schools. Whole classes of highschool seniors that can't read... Some of them don't even know all of their letters. I really, really wish I was joking seeing as I have to live right next to them up North...

The 13th amendment in their precious "constitution" tells me everything about the US I will ever need to know.

There was nothing to celebrate, it's a double shit show right now. We should have been mourning for the 4th of July.

They're celebrating a global terrorist nation that completely fucks over every other country and it's own citizens especially

You guys really eat up the propaganda, don't cha?

So desperate you'll cite CATO (lololol) going out of their way with shitty questions meant to generate rage from their base.

This is just adorable. Do y'all regularly read CATO literature? Find them interesting?