CNN's Harry Enten dropped a striking data point: 93% of Republicans are extremely or very proud to be American, versus only 27% of Democrats. The gap is 66 points. More Democrats now report little or no pride in America than report being very proud. That's not a policy disagreement — that's a completely different country.
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Farash plays the Harry Enten CNN clip as statistical punctuation for everything he's argued so far. The numbers are striking: 93% of Republicans report being extremely or very proud to be American, with just 1% saying they have little to no pride. On the Democratic side, only 27% report being extremely or very proud — and the percentage with little or no pride has now surpassed the percentage with very high pride. [1] — Harry Enten "CNN's Harry Enten dropped a striking data point: 93% of Republicans are extremely or very proud to be American, versus only 27% of Democrat…" 1:19:20 Enten describes it as living in 'a completely different universe' depending on your party. Farash responds with a personal testimony: he was in 5th grade on Long Island on September 11, 2001, and the next morning — September 12 — every porch had an American flag. He lists every country on Earth and notes there is only one whose name is attached to a universal 'dream' concept: the American Dream. He argues this is the greatest country on Earth precisely because hard work is still rewarded here more than anywhere else, and he refuses to feel anything but pride regardless of who is in the White House.
CNN data analyst Harry Enten reported that 93% of Republicans are extremely or very proud to be American, versus only 27% of Democrats.
Only 27% of Democrats say they are extremely or very proud to be American, and more Democrats report little to no pride than report being very proud.
The gap between Republicans (93%) and Democrats (27%) who say they are extremely or very proud to be American is 66 percentage points.
Most people confuse things they value instrumentally (because they get them other things) with things they value intrinsically (for their own sake). Greenberg's friend stayed in a miserable relationship for years because she was living by her parents' values, not her own — the values map made the mismatch instantly visible.
Jungian analyst James Hollis distills a good life to four things: shut up (have gratitude, stop whining), suit up (prepare yourself to fulfill a role), show up (do the actual work in service of others), and daily get out of stimulus-response to ask what your deeper wish actually is. The whole landscape of self-help slots into just these four bins.
Toward the end of their 20s, many men discover that all the strategies that earned them recognition and success have stopped working. It's a second adolescence — more important than the first — where the question shifts from 'how do I play the game?' to 'who do I actually want to become?' Most people going through it look fragile from the outside. They're actually building a foundation.
Boys are told from childhood not to cry, not to feel, not to be weak — but anger gets a pass. The result: a generation of men who reroute every emotion, including sadness and fear, through the only acceptable channel. Emotional avoidance isn't toughness, it's misdirected sensitivity.
Men need a 'bank account' of masculine status — muscle, money, success — before society grants them permission to express vulnerability. Chris Bumstead can cry at the Olympia and get celebrated. A struggling nobody doing the same thing gets contempt. This creates a tragic paradox where the men who most need emotional support get the least of it.
Emotional sensitivity isn't a defect — it's a high-resolution scanner for human experience. Highly sensitive people pick up body language, tone, and unspoken tension that others miss entirely. In the right environment, that's not a liability. It's a superpower.
Her supervisor told her she was too emotional for the pediatric ICU. So she asked herself: 'What area of medicine can I cry in?' That question led her to psychiatry. Finding the environment that holds your emotional sensitivity isn't retreat — it's strategy.
For someone with RSD, ghosting isn't ambiguity — it's a self-verdict. Their brain doesn't read 'this relationship ended,' it reads 'I am the reason this failed.' No closure means the brain fills the gap with evidence of personal insufficiency, and it keeps filling indefinitely.
More freedom doesn't produce more happiness — it produces more anxiety. Kierkegaard identified this 180 years ago: the more options you have, the more you feel the 'dizziness of freedom,' a paralytic unease at having to choose any single one. The freest generation in history is, by his prediction, exactly the most anxious.
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