Elon University asked Americans a simple question: is there another country where you'd rather live today? Fifty-five percent of Democrats said yes.
Ten percent of Republicans said the same.
The poll was measuring partisan attitudes toward patriotism ahead of America's 250th anniversary. What it actually measured was a 45-point gap between the two parties on whether this country is even worth living in.
The numbers get worse. When asked about national pride, 68 percent of Republicans reported feeling proud about America250 and the country's founding. Among Democrats, that number was 18 percent. Not a typo. Eighteen.
So roughly four out of five Democrats aren't proud of the nation's founding, and more than half would prefer to live somewhere else entirely. These are the people who want to run the government of the country they'd rather not inhabit.
The broader survey found that 79 percent of Americans believe the United States plays a uniquely important role in world history, and 68 percent overall reported feeling proud to be American. Those are healthy numbers — until you realize they're being dragged down by an entire political party that views the Fourth of July as something closer to a funeral than a celebration.
None of this is surprising to anyone who's watched progressive politics for the last decade. The academic left has spent years teaching that America was founded on oppression, built on exploitation, and sustained by systemic injustice. Eventually the students graduate and start answering polls.
But there's a difference between suspecting something and having Elon University hand you a spreadsheet that confirms it. We've watched Democrats kneel during the national anthem, campaign on America's sins, and treat the Constitution like a suggestion box. Now we have the polling data that shows the logical endpoint: they'd rather just leave.
The 55 percent who said they'd prefer another country didn't specify which one. That's always the interesting part. Canada gets mentioned a lot in these conversations, until people Google the tax rates. Scandinavia comes up, until someone points out the immigration policies. The fantasy country Democrats want to move to is America with different people running it — which is another way of saying they don't want a different country, they want a different electorate.
Seth Segal, writing for The Gateway Pundit, noted that the gap "suggests that attitudes toward America's history and founding ideals increasingly break along partisan lines." That's the polite academic framing. The blunt version is that one party thinks the country is worth celebrating and the other thinks it's worth escaping.
Seventy-nine percent of Americans think this country plays a unique role in history. The 250th anniversary is next year. And the party that controls zero branches of the federal government can't muster even one in five members who are proud of the founding.
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