A poll by the Wall Street Journal that found Americans place less importance on patriotism, religion, and hard work than they once did set off Republican activists and politicians last week
In response to the poll, Vivek Ramaswamy, an "anti-woke" investor and presidential candidate, tweeted, "Faith, patriotism, family, and hard work have disappeared." Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Arkansas' governor and the former Trump White House press secretary, tweeted that's "the source of so many of our nation's problems."
Sixty-seven percent of the 1,019 American adults surveyed in March said hard work is "very important" to them, in a poll conducted by The Wall Street Journal with the nonpartisan research group NORC at the University of Chicago. That's down 16 percentage points from when WSJ first asked this question in 1998, when 83% said hard work was a very important part of the American character.
Whereas Americans used to believe "if you work hard, you can get ahead in America," Aaron Zitner, a WSJ editor, told the "What's New" podcast, "this poll found record pessimism that our children's generation can do better than our generation." Only 21% of Americans were confident their children's generation would have a better life, compared to 64% in 1998.
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