Wow, I looked at your profile page—great work! I’d like to read your books.
Thanks all. All “optimism” must be grounded in a faith in American exceptionalism. This is what is missing. Exceptionalism does NOT mean “my country’s better than yours,” although it can. It means that by origin and structure, the USA has elements that NO OTHER nation on earth has: free markets, Christian religious faith (mostly protestant), property rights, and common law. Many countries (Japan, Taiwan) have #1 and 4; some (England, Germany) have 1, 2, and 3, but NONE have all four except us. So when that freakin’ idiot Obama says the Greeks believe in “Greek exceptionalism,” it shows what a total imbecile he really is and how he does not understand who NO other country is “exceptional” like we are.