The New American Exceptionalism: Number one in obesity, guns, prisoners, anxiety, and more...
alternet.org
July 24, 2013 |
People uninterested in change and progress tend to cling to the jingoistic fantasy that America is an exceptional country. Often this implies that the U.S. is somehow superior to other nations. Some, like the neocons, have taken the idea of exceptionalism to mean that America should be above the law and that other countries should be remade in our image. Others, like conservative evangelicals, believe that America's supposed exceptionalism is God's will.
In recent decades, America has indeed pulled ahead of the global pack in a number of areas. But they aren’t necessarily things to go waving the flag over. If we can't address the following trends, we'll end up snuffing out the things that truly have made the country great, like opportunities for mobility and a decent social safety net."...
I think she plagiarized that from "The Newsroom", or maybe they plagiarized it from her, but either way I've seen similar half-truths strung together from the left before, and I'm sure I'll see such drivel again before my time here is done.
