Just 30 Percent of Democrats Say U.S. Has Liberty and Justice for All

Half of Americans in a new Rasmussen poll said they believe the lines found in the Pledge of Allegiance, that the United States is a nation where there is “liberty and justice for all.” But the poll showed a sharp partisan split.

Three-quarters of Republicans said they think the U.S. has liberty and justice for all, 76 percent, while fewer than one-third of Democrats — 30 percent — said they believe that statement to be true.

Of those who said they have no party affiliation, 46 percent said they think the U.S. has liberty and justice for all.

The national poll of 1,000 adults was conducted June 28-29 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points with a 95 percent confidence level.

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While 49 percent of all those polled said they thought the U.S. has liberty and justice for all, men were somewhat more likely to say this — 52 percent — with 46 percent of women saying so.

Most black Americans told the pollsters that they do not think the U.S. has liberty and justice for all.

But the greatest difference by far was in the divide between Republicans and Democrats: 76 versus 30 percent.

On what is Democrats’ low number based?

One Twitter user noted that Rasmussen didn’t ask people how they would define “liberty” and “justice,” with another musing that justice to some might mean free stuff, like “being given a phone.”

The “Freedom in the World 2017” report by Freedom House gave the U.S. an 89 out of 100 rating for freedom, and rated the country’s status as “free.” The U.S. got a perfect score from Freedom House for freedom of expression and belief — combining First Amendment freedoms of speech and of religion.

The 49 percent who think the country has liberty and justice for all is down from last year, when 53 percent said it does, but it is higher than in 2014, when just 46 percent affirmed that statement.

The same poll asked Americans if they would still live in the U.S. if they had a choice to live anywhere in the world. Seventy-five percent said they would, and 15 percent said they would choose to live elsewhere. But among those who said they disagree that the U.S. is a place with liberty and justice for all, just 57 percent said they would still live here if given the choice, with 43 percent saying they weren’t sure or would live in another country if they could.

It’s a strikingly high number, and seems to show many Americans, most of them Democrats, losing a feeling of attachment to the country, or love for the country.

On the first day of the Democratic National Convention a year ago, Donald Trump tweeted there was “not one American flag” on the “massive stage” in the convention hall until people started complaining.

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An American flag was displayed on the video screen behind the stage, but as Polifact noted, there was no physical American flag on the stage the first day of the convention. An American flag was brought onto the stage for the Pledge of Allegiance, but was carried off afterward.

A May 31 Rasmussen poll showed only 68 percent of American adults said they think Americans should be proud of the history of the United States, while 16 percent said Americans should be ashamed of U.S. history and another 15 percent were undecided.

Only 56 percent of blacks said U.S. history is something of which to be proud.

Americans over age 40 were more likely than younger people to think Americans should be proud of their history. Just 61 percent of those under 40 agreed, while 39 percent either disagreed or were undecided.

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A Gallup survey released in July of 2016 showed that only 36 percent of liberals said they are extremely proud to be American. The number for all Americans in the survey was 52 percent, a big drop from the 70 percent recorded in 2003.

A Gallup poll from June 2017 showed that 4 percent of the world’s population, 147 million people, would move to the U.S. if they could. More people said they would move to the U.S. than the next four countries of choice combined.