From The Hill, “A nation-wide poll conducted by the libertarian think tank Cato Institute found that only 53 percent of respondents could correctly identify the adoption of the Declaration of Independence as the historical event marked by July 4. Forty-six percent of Americans surveyed said they did not know what the day commemorated, including 61 percent of Gen Z respondents. Additionally, 58 percent of all those surveyed did not know the main purpose of the U.S. Constitution and 57 percent could not explain why the U.S. declared independence from Great Britain to form a government with limited powers. … While a majority of respondents in the Cato survey, 86 percent, expressed their gratitude to be Americans, 60 percent said they believe the country has moved away from its founding principles.”
This is a joke, right? I mean, Americans cannot literally be this f***ing stupid about the founding of the nation in which they live? Oh, wait! Who the f*** am I kidding? There is, indeed, no fitting survey result than that which evinces the idiocracy that is this sh*t-for-brains, the United States of ‘Murica! I expected nothing less. Of course, nearly half of the nation doesn’t understand what 4 July represents. Why would they? Is there a TikTok video explaining the day? Short of that, I entirely understand why Americans are clueless about this holiday. And by Americans, I primarily mean native-born, because naturalized citizens have to pass an oral exam about America, including the meaning of its founding day.