Jimmy Carter lost the 1980 general election by a landslide to Ronald Reagan, so it's difficult to understand why Joe Biden continues to follow the Carter 'malaise' playbook today. Bettman via Getty Images/Shutterstock Composite: Mark Kelly“American exceptionalism” isn’t a jingoistic fantasy. For two centuries it’s been based solidly on empirical realities. Output in the new United States in 1776 was perhaps a quarter of that in its mother country, Great Britain.
Signs of extraordinary accomplishment were everywhere. The U.S. witnessed the largest sustained in-migration the world had ever known, as people flocked to American shores. There were so many that the nation decided to restrict admission rather severely beginning in the 1920s. U.S. global leadership didn’t come from random luck, superior location or natural resources. Its 20th-century rival, the Soviet Union, had far more people and land and at least as many valuable minerals in 1976.
opinion No. Nothing will get better.
opinion Numbers 1-5: the corrupt and divisive media
opinion Too much whining in this opinion piece. Relative to the rest of the world, America’s in great shape.
opinion Yes. If democrats stop their socialist agenda and get back to what made the US great, Capitalism
opinion The US is exceptional in circumstance. Global influence, resource availability, internal diversity, individually considerable but together formidable. But we're fcking clownshoes in execution, always have been. What's truly exceptional about the US is we're not all dead yet.
opinion I think it can, but the problem with zealous patriotism is it causes us to believe greatness intrinsic without needing to strive for it, resting then on the laurels of those who before us who did, as opposed to our own current deeds. Our forefathers could not afford this.
opinion Did Covid-19 render the U.S. less exceptional, by causing offices, schools and universities to be locked down and making people dependent on stimulus?
opinion Remove progressive influences and we are back to exceptional! ie the America 1st Movement!
opinion doesn’t seem so “exceptional” anymore, with all the nonsense from opinion taking over the feed.