Gene Healy Says You Can’t Blame Americans for Not Feeling Exceptional

“We
are exceptional in a certain way that no other nation is,”
Secretary of State John Kerry told U.S. embassy
staffers in Vienna last week. We’re the only country founded
on “the idea that people are created equal and that all people have
a chance to aspire for greatness. … Pretty amazing, right?” Kerry
enthused. So far, so patriotically correct — but Kerry really
stepped in it when he admitted getting “a little uptight when I
hear politicians say how exceptional we are. … Not because we’re
not exceptional,” he hastened to add — but because bragging
about it is “kind of in-your-face.”

Hit the Drudge siren! Mobilize the shock troops of righteous
indignation! Gene Healy notes that everyone from Rush Limbaugh to
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal had a tedious rage-spasm, making an
ersatz religion out of American Exceptionalism instead of
addressing the ways in which America grows less exceptional.

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