American Exceptionalism

ℹ️American Exceptionalism
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By :	Aristotle Sabouni
Created :	2022-02-21

1Liner :

Is America exceptional? Yes. In so many ways that uneducated, miseducated, or indoctrinated refuse to understand or admit.

Summary :

American Exceptionalism is about the first modern Democracy, the first Constitution and Bill of Rights, recognizing that Humans have rights and grant governments temporary power and not the other way around, the least imperialistic, the most charitable, we fought wars to free others, creating more of the world's innovations, first to go to the moon, and so on. That's not jingoism, that's history.

How is American Exceptional?[edit | edit source]

The uneducated, miseducated, or indoctrinated refuse to understand or admit what makes America Exceptional, but these include the following:

The first country to give the world a people's Constitution on the principles that Humans have God given rights, and they temporarily give powers to Government, and not the other way around.
America created the Bill of Rights. Unlike Parliamentary systems that loan privileges to people (and can be taken away), free speech is not subject to thought police, the right of privacy, self defense, not to self incriminate, is not a priviledge. Decentralized government is necessary for cultural and geographic diversity, over one-size-fits all centralism.
America has both been the most powerful economically and the least imperialistic relative to that power imblanace.
America is a country that fought wars to free other people from tyranny (including the only country to have a Civil War to free a minority): Europe from the Nazi's, prevented the USSR from taking over Europe (Cold War), freed the Iraqi's from a tyrant, stopped the enslavement of Korea and slowed the enslavement of South East Asia from the communists.
The most philanthropic, and one of the most open to trade, even when it didn't benefit us.
America had the most entrepreneurial freedoms
At one point the lowest taxes and regulations
America pays more in healthcare in order to subsidize the world's medical innovation (over half is done by the U.S., more because of our free market).
America gave the world more than any other country in economics, culture, science and technology: from the Internet to microprocessors, going to the moon, Smart Phones, Search, Social Media, various drugs and medical innovations, the airplane, and so on.

Far from perfect, but just better than most of it's contemporaries at any given point in time. No other 5 countries combined have done as many innovations, because our economic and personal freedoms, our capitalism, and our willingness to invest in making the world a better place. That's not just jingoism, that's recognizing an outsized impact to humanity for it's population, geography, resources. It was the fertile soil of freedom/opportunity and optimism that allowed a undeveloped land to become the most powerful country in the world in under two centuries, despite the others having a multi-thousand year headstart.

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PragerU on American Exceptionalism
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PragerU

What makes America Exceptions?

The right to fail - to succeed, you need to be able to fail, learn from your mistakes, and try, try, again. (Entrepreneurial risks).
Most Philanthropic - or at least generous with trade and opening our markets
Fights for the freedom of others - the Anti-Switzerland. Instead of profiteering off war, or European Imperialism we expend to create free countries that will self-governed trading partners

Bill Whittle on American Exceptionalism
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Bill Whittle

Bill covers American Exceptionalism like:

We're top on, despite being only 5% of the world's population:
Military exceptionalism: both the world's strongest power, the least abusive relative to that power.
Economic exceptionalism: produces more per person than any other place on earth. We've dominated in agriculture, industrial and information -- the 3 great economic ages.
Scientific exceptionalism: if Scientific citations are units of science, the U.S. produces 4x as many citations globally than the #2 U.K. More than the next 6 combined. Not to mention various innovations like the Internet.
Cultural exceptionalism: mentions how our movies are the top 50 in the world, our musicians like Michael Jackson, and how we influence the world culture.

We dominate anything we're involved in. Why? Because we believe in small government, individualism, and that wealth can be created through ideas and hard work. All things the left vehemently disagrees with, and holds down in other places.