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So Wait, Now Most Of America Seemingly Doesn’t Like America?

OK, this seems to be going pretty well.

Ted Bauer
4 min readMar 29, 2023

You may have seen some new polling and research from The Wall Street Journal on America becoming less patriotic, which is tied somewhat to some 2019 Gallup polling (in the “Before Times”) about American happiness, and also dovetails with some recent CDC research about teenage depression and how, supposedly, being liberal makes you more depressed:

Some of these themes are summarized in this op-ed article, and/or this video:

As you’d expect, this all spawned 1.5 million Twitter hot takes, with this being one of the most comprehensive:

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Ted Bauer
Ted Bauer

Written by Ted Bauer

I write about a lot of different topics, from work to masculinity to relationships and social dynamics, I.e. modern friendship. Pleasure to be here.

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