Consider that at the time of its founding the United States was solely dependent on agriculture and foreign trade with more advanced nations became an industrial powerhouse in 100 years and in 200 years put the first humans on another planet. The United States has been the source of nearly every major technological innovation in the last two centuries including human flight, the automobile, cures for diseases that had plagued humanity for millennia, nuclear energy, space flight, computers, the Internet and a host of others. The citizens of the United States enjoy the highest standard of living in the world. Why did nations with 1000 year histories, who created the printing press and the Industrial Revolution not achieve what has been achieved by the United States? The answer is that the United States IS exceptional and was blessed by its founders with a revolutionary system of governance that allowed its citizens the freedom to be exceptional
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