Liberals Are Asked if They Love America and Their Answers Are Infuriating

When it comes to Americans living in America, the analogy that best comes to mind is a family who works in a candy store on a nice street in a good neighborhood complaining about how bad things are. That’s exactly what the vast majority of those asked if they’re proud to be an American by Prager U’s man-on-the-street interviewer Will Witt sounded like.

“What’s your favorite thing about America?”

“The women,” he responds. Witt agrees and so do I. There’s a reason American women have the most songs written about them.

But that’s the high point and it all goes downhill from there. Person after person around the beautiful leisure area of Echo Park says they aren’t proud to be an American.

The reasons range from “Donald Trump” and the fact that he’s not a black, lesbian woman — no joke — to a claim that capitalism has ruined the country.

“Capitalism. Putting the buck before the person,” one gentleman in a metal band t-shirt explains to Witt.

“America, in a way, is the land of selfishness to the extreme,” another park-goer responds, without any supporting evidence.

Who is proud to be an American?

The one person who tells Witt he’s proud to be an American is —Suprise! — a first-generation American.

“Yes, definitely,” he says. “I was the first person in my family to be born in the United States, so.”

There’s something about knowing firsthand what it’s like to grow up in a country that’s not the U.S. that makes one truly appreciate just how unique and amazing America is.

When Witt asks two men if patriotism is a good thing, without missing a beat, the both say no.

“It creates division. It’s like religion,” one replies.

Patriotism creates division? In America?

One has to wonder if Witt would have received the same answers in other parts of the country as he did in SoCal.