A new Gallup poll says that just 32 percent of Democrats are “extremely proud” to be an American.  On the Republican side the number jumps to 74 percent.

The survey is obviously impacted by President Trump who is driving liberal Americans crazy, literally.

On the eve of July 4, it is worth thinking about your country and how you feel about being part of it.  For me, the legacy of the USA is simply this:  the country has provided more opportunity to more human beings than any nation on earth and it isn’t even close.

That doesn’t even take into account the billions of people America has set free from tyranny the world over. My grandfather fought at the Argonne in World War I as part of The Lost Battalion. My father was a naval officer in occupied Japan. My first cousin walked point in Vietnam.

I am very proud of my family and my country and it annoys me greatly to see so much ignorance, so much grievance in America today.

A president does not define the country, he or she represents it for four or eight years.  A president might hurt or help the nation but the person cannot change the basic nobility of what we’ve accomplished since 1776.

However, the sad truth is that many Americans do not know what the nation has accomplished or even why tens of millions of foreign nationals will do almost anything to live here in the present day.

I wrote Killing England to spell it all out - the sacrifice, the brilliance, the nobility of the revolution that created the USA.  The book counters the folks who are not proud to be Americans.  The movement to diminish the USA is well funded and fanatical.  It is making some progress.

Tonight I will continue my reporting on the social civil war now underway in America.  And during this week honoring our Independence from Great Britain, it is worth paying attention to the current political struggle. My analysis is a bit slanted, I admit.

Because I am extremely proud to be an American.