A new Rasmussen poll shows just how disillusioned Americans have become with the direction of their own country, over four and a half years since President Obama took office. According to Rasmussen, barely a third of US voters think the nation’s Founding Fathers would view the United States as a success today. 49 percent think the opposite:
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Abraham Lincoln famously declared at Gettysburg that the Founding Fathers “brought forth on this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.†But half of Americans think the Founding Fathers would view the nation they created as a failure today.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 34% of American Adults think that if the Founding Fathers came back today, they would consider the United States a success. Forty-nine percent (49%), however, say the founders of this nation would view what it’s become as a failure. Seventeen percent (17%) are not sure.
It will be hard for the White House to dismiss these findings as anything other than a resounding vote of no confidence in President Obama’s leadership from half the country. A Gallup poll released in July, asking a similar question, was just as bad, with 71 percent of Americans saying the Founding Fathers “would be disappointed†with “the way the United States has turned out,†up from 50 percent in 2004, and around 60 percent in 2009.
Americans remain deeply patriotic – 85 percent say they are “extremely/very proud†to be American according to Gallup. But they are increasingly disenchanted with the course the world’s superpower is taking, hardly surprising with a sluggish economy, 7.3 percent unemployment, rising taxes, a $17 trillion national debt, and a new health care law that is hugely unpopular.