A new Fox News poll has produced some stunning and disturbing results. For the first time in the history of the survey, fewer than half of the American people (43%) believe our country's best days are still ahead of us. Forty-eight percent believe our best days are in the past. The decline in optimism about the future has been dramatic. The percentage of Americans believing the best is yet to come was 63% in 2012, 62% in 2017, and 52% in 2021 before declining to 43% today.
Other responses in the Fox survey signal growing unease. Only 39% of Americans are extremely proud of America and growing numbers believe we are not the best country in the world to live in.
It is heartbreaking to see this evidence that Americans are unsure about the value of our country and so many lack confidence in its future. America has created more opportunities and more freedom for more people than any nation in the world. At the same time, we understand the growing anxiety.
The American family is in precipitous decline. Birth rates have plummeted. Newborns are increasingly likely to be raised in homes without fathers. Fewer Americans attend church and read the Bible. Corruption is growing in virtually every area of American life. Drug use, alcoholism, and youth suicide are epidemic. Our educational establishment teaches anti-American history, while our students fall further and further behind in math, reading, and science. The list goes on and on.
America's best days can still be ahead, but only if we stop our mad embrace of moral relativism and embrace the Judeo-Christian teachings that are the foundation of our country. That is what JDFI is committed to accomplishing with your help. Together, with God's blessings, we can make America a "shining city on a hill" again.