A new poll from Rasmussen Reports indicates that a surprisingly high percentage of Democrats agree with New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s assertion that America “was never that great.”
Cuomo recently made those comments to a room full of people at a bill-signing event, drawing audible gasps and awkward laughter from the crowd.
“We’re not going to make America great again,” Cuomo said, taking a shot at President Trump’s famous campaign slogan. “It was never that great.”
While a vast majority of voters disagree with the anti-American sentiment, a startling number of Democrats agree.
“One-in-five Democrats agree, but a sizable majority of all voters thinks he was off-base,” Rasmussen reported.
21% of #Democrats agree with #Cuomo that “We’re not going to make America great again. It was never that great.” … https://t.co/yNNeu70Wt6 pic.twitter.com/4S88wNsOZw
— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) August 20, 2018
According to the same poll, 67 percent disagree with Cuomo’s statement, while 17 percent, in general, agree and another 16 percent are undecided.
Leaving this author to ask – How the hell is the number of Americans who disagree with Cuomo, not in the 90th percentile? Why does anyone agree with him? How can you possibly be undecided when you live in the greatest country on Earth?
Democrats are clearly weighing the poll down here, as they consistently do with other polls about patriotism, but their mainstream party leaders agree. That is the problem.
In just the last few weeks, contenders for the White House in 2020 have said:
- Cory Booker – “There’s things that are savagely wrong in this country.”
- Bernie Sanders – “There is something fundamentally immoral and wrong about (America).”
- Elizabeth Warren – The American law enforcement system is “racist” from “front to back.”
And of course, Cuomo’s assessment.
Amazingly, on the heels of his un-American comments, Cuomo accused President Trump of being un-American.
“It’s un-American for this President to be spreading the division among us when it was his job to bring unity to all of us,” said the man who once told conservatives to leave his state.
Trump countered by daring Cuomo to run against him in 2020, a far less likely scenario now that the governor committed political suicide in front of mainstream and independent voters who actually love America.
“He called me and said I will never run for president against you,” Trump claimed. “But maybe he wants to.”
“Please do it. Please do it. Please! He did say that. The one thing we know, they do say anybody that runs against Trump suffers. That’s the way it should be,” he added.
Which is worse, Hightax Andrew Cuomo’s statement, “WE’RE NOT GOING TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, IT WAS NEVER THAT GREAT” or Hillary Clinton’s “DEPLORABLES” statement…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 17, 2018
…I say Andrew’s was a bigger and more incompetent blunder. He should easily win his race against a Super Liberal Actress, but his political career is over!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 17, 2018
RNC spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany recently told Fox News that voters will hear “anti-American, pro-socialist rhetoric” from the Democrats’ debate stage in 2020.
She accused some in the party of “destroying the very fabric of our country” with their anti-American comments.
How did one political party in this country go so completely off the rails in their hatred of America?
COMOHOLE-A$$HOLE, BETTER SPELLING, SAME MEANING!!!!DUH!
What has become of the Democratic Party. They have gone from the party of the working guy, which tried to improve working conditions, and supported union efforts to do so. They campaigned, the voted, and they accepted losses with humility, and worked harder next election. They supported some good candidates, and some not so good candidates, but the all loved the US, and thought it was the best country in the world. Now they seem only interested in stirring the pot, racially, socially, and ethically. Their candidates get closer and closer to outright socialists, and they seem to think the US constitution, and bill of rights are obsolete, and not relevant. This kind of thing makes me glad that at 75, I won’t have to be around too much longer to see a great country become another failed socialist experiment.
There is a big difference between being ‘the greatest county in the world’ and being great. We have for centuries been the envy of the rest of the world and the country the people of the world either wanted to emulate or immigrate to.
But we have never been ‘great’ for all of our people. Ask any Native American how great they and their ancestors have been treated in the USA. Look back at how we treated the different immigrants though out history, the Irish, the Chinese, the Japanese, the Latin Americans. During the Civil War were we a great nation? Or the great depression, the Dust Bowl, during any of the World Wars, Korean or Viet Nam wars? Has there every been a time without poverty and homelessness in the USA? And of course looking at the historic treatment of Blacks in this nation has been anything but great.
Yes there have been very successful and prosperous segments of our nation in it’s history, but we have a long ways to go to be truly ‘Great’ for all.
America is as good as it gets, all things considered.. Period. End of discussion.