Posted on 09/19/2021 10:25:12 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
It has been the project of the political left for quite some time to convince Americans that there is nothing exceptional about their country. To “fundamentally transform” a culture, you must first poison the roots of what has already been growing. So for a century, Marxists have disparaged American history as steeped in genocide, imperialism, and avarice.
They have exploited the imagery of virtue and vice to convince moral people that their nation rose from immorality. This has reached its logical apex with the historically illiterate 1619 Project, supported by elite news publications and academic institutions, reimagining America’s birth as bathed not in liberty, but rather enslavement.
Killing American history is not just a matter of destroying our collective identity as Americans, but also the vehicle for undermining notions of personal freedom. Barack Obama famously revealed how little he understood about the United States when he mocked the idea of “exceptionalism” altogether: “I believe in American exceptionalism,” he said after becoming president, “just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.”
After taking heat for so nonchalantly dismissing a point of American pride, Obama made sure to pay lip service to the idea of “American exceptionalism” for the remainder of his presidency. When he did so, however, the “exceptionalism” of which he spoke was clothed in the trappings of postmodernism, personal identity, and power. At various times, he pointed to America’s commitment to “international norms,” the ability of American NGOs to reshape societies abroad, government-funded science and health care, American economic dominance and military might, and even his own rise to power as proof of “American exceptionalism.”
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BOTH parties enabled the ineligible Kenyan from Indonesia to usurp the office which he used to destroy ALL of our institutions.
If the whole world imitated us, we wouldn't be an exception anymore. What "American exceptionalism" originally meant was that we were different, an exception. For a lot of people now it seems to mean that we are exceptional in the sense of wonderful. We are a wonderful country, but that's not what the phrase refers to. Clearly we do have our own traditions, values and principles, but the idea of American exceptionalism is a complicated one and shouldn't become a political attack slogan.
It is much easier to pretend that the intrusive surveillance state unleashed in the wake of a national tragedy was done for the public’s own good, and not to usher in a new era of absolute control. It is much easier to assert deceitfully that the world has grown too complex and unwieldy to survive without a class of managerial technocrats ruling over everyone else.
Again, it's complicated and hard to sort out what was essential for national security twenty years ago and what went too far. Maybe consolidating elite power was what Bush and Cheney were after back then, but many people here didn't think so at the time.
But to be fair the rot had already set in when the Clintons were granted a load of FBI files on their political enemies without question. Hence the b witch is still not wearing orange like she deserves. And this Milley guy is still walking around free disgracing the Marine uniform after blatant traitorous actions. Lamp posts, indeed.
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