On American Exceptionalism

[NYcarbineer]

"...conservative style, is just an expensive delusion of grandeur."

Expensive.....

Interesting that you use that term in the pejorative.....

...revealing in that Liberals are well known to fall well behind in charitable donations.






Now, real Americans, conservatives....

"Last year Americans gave $300 billion to charity. To put this into perspective, that is almost twice what we spent on consumer electronics equipment—equipment including cell phones, iPods and DVD players. Americans gave three times as much to charity last year as we spent on gambling and ten times as much as we spent on professional sports. America is by far the most charitable country in the world.

There is no other country that comes close.
https://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/archive/issue.asp?year=2010&month=01





There is no other country that comes close.

ex·cep·tion·al (k-spsh-nl)
adj.
1. Being an exception; uncommon.
2. Well above average; extraordinary: an exceptional memory. See Usage Note at exceptionable.
3. Deviating widely from a norm,
exceptional - definition of exceptional by The Free Dictionary



I am always amused at how frequently I am forced to teach you the English language.

Maybe you should wonder why a nation as wealthy as the US would have so much need for charity.

Republicans would take food stamps away from the working poor, I guess in order to make them more appreciative of the canned goods they might be able to get down at the local food pantry.

We do not live in a wealthy nation, we have never lived in a wealthy nation, and it is very unlikely that we will ever live in a wealthy nation. We live in a nation that is massively in debt, and getting deeper in debt every day. When you start with a faulty premise, all of the conclusions based on that premise are faulty, and that is the prime problem with modern Liberalism.

We live in a nation of relatively wealthy people. The wealth belongs to those who have it, and not to the nation or anyone else. The American people are a very generous people, and much individual wealth is given to charity to care for those who need help, here at home, and abroad.

Liberals, for some odd and ignorant reason, believe that the wealth generated by millions of individuals, working in their own self interest, somehow belongs to the collective, and they wish to use government to confiscate "their fair share" and redistribute it to those who did not generate it. That is the worst type of greed, and arises from an attitude of personal entitlement, that is as unAmerican as one can get. And, that is why liberals object to the idea of American exceptionalism.

American exceptionalism is the concept that millions of people, all operating in their own self interest, working at improving the condition of themselves and their families, generate wealth better than any form of collective or government run system. This concept is being copied around the world, and works every where that it is tried.

Well I guess then the closer we get back towards the Gilded Age the more exceptional we'll be.

 

[NYcarbineer]

The question was,

why would a nation as wealthy as the US have the need for so much charity?

 

[georgephillip]

Chomsky thus proved the exceptionalism, by merely denying it.

Can you elaborate?
It seems to me he proved all countries believe they are exceptional in spite of the many crimes in their past.

 

[georgephillip]

They do say birds of a feather ......


So...anarchist-socialist-communist-lying bottom-feeder Chomsky is your champion?


Chomsky’s lifelong effort is to affirm the transcendent evil of America...This America-hater is your authority on America????

What sort of moron are you?




1. He has figured out how to make an exceptional fortune while living as a self-described ‘anarchist-socialist’ dissident in a capitalist society he has described as a ‘police state.’

a. He claims to be constantly threatened with censorship, while publishing dozens of books.

b. He denounces the Pentagon as the epitome of evil, while making million from his work for the very same institution. As a tenured MIT professor he actually works for the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT, and same is entirely funded by the Pentagon and a few multinational corporations.

c. His first book, “Syntactic Structures,” was written with grants from the US Army (Signal Corp), the Air Force (Office of Scientific Research, Air Research, and Development Command), and Office of Naval Research.


2. A self-described admirer of the Black Panthers, who says that intellectuals must combat ‘all forms of racism,’ and complains that America excluded blacks from large parts of the country, owns a home in a town with a black population of 1.1%
Bill Frezza, “A Lion in Winter,” The Tech (MIT student newspaper), February 20, 2004


3. Chomsky was one of the chief deniers of the Cambodian genocide of the 1970s, which took place in the wake of the Communist victory and American withdrawal from Indochina. He directed vitriolic attacks towards the reporters and witnesses who testified to the human catastrophe that was taking place there. Initially, Chomsky tried to minimize the deaths (a “few thousand”) and compared those killed by Pol Pot and his followers to the collaborators who had been executed by resistance movements in Europe at the end of World War II. By 1980, however, it was no longer possible to deny that some 2 million of Cambodia's 7.8 million people had perished at the hands of the Communists. But Professor Chomsky continued to deny the genocide, proposing that the underlying problem may have been a failure of the rice crop. As late as 1988, Chomsky returned to the subject and insisted that whatever had happened in Cambodia, the U.S. was to blame.

a. This conclusion is the principal theme of what may be loosely termed Chomsky's intellectual oeuvre: Whatever evil exists in the world, the United States is to blame. His intellectual obsession is America and its “grand strategy of world domination.” In 1967 Professor Chomsky wrote that America “needed a kind of denazification.” The Third Reich has provided him with his central metaphor for his own country ever since.

b. The Soviet dictatorship was not only "morally equivalent" to democratic America, in Chomsky’s view, but actually better because it was less powerful. The chief sin of Stalinism in his eyes was not the murder of millions, but the fact that he had given socialism a bad name. Noam Chomsky - Discover the Networks



4.Let's take a look at this beast's center:

“I see no anti-Semitic implications in denial of the existence of gas chambers, or even denial of the holocaust. Nor would there be anti-Semitic implications, per se, in the claim that the holocaust (whether one believes it took place or not) is being exploited, viciously so, by apologists for Israeli repression and violence.”
Chomsky letter cited in W.D. Rubinstein, “Chomsky and the Neo-Nazis,” Quadrant (Australia), October 1981, pp. 8-14; also cited in Werner Cohn, “Chomsky and Holocaust Denial,” The Anti-Chomsky Reader, Collier and Horowitz (editors), 2004, pp. 129-130.



You imbecile.

How do Chomsky's intellectual accomplishments compare to Ann Coulter?
One's been called the most important US intellectual alive by the NYT.
Can you guess which, Bitch?

Perhaps I was too moderate in my analysis.

Chomsky, and you, are mouth-breathing, half-witted, scruffy-looking, rotten, lying no good, four-flushing, snake-licking, sleezy, slimy, sticky, stinky, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, hopeless, bug-eyed, foul-mouthed, lying, soiled-soul, sacks of sewage. .... ignoble, ignorant, illiterate, incestuous, illegitimate progeny of parents who belong to the phyla insecta..... unwashed dogs!



Are you beginning to get my drift?

You're still beating your dog?
Does Ann know?

 

[Erand7899]

American Exceptionalism is a manifestation of pride, and as all good conservative Christians will tell you...

"...Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall." Proverbs 16:18

Actually American pride is a manifestation of American exceptionalism, but you would have no way of knowing that because you are way too busy finding faults with the system that built this economic powerhouse.

American exceptionalism was demonstrated in 1943 and 1944, when the American system created more war materials in those two years than all of the other WWII participants, put together, did during the duration of the war. Once again, individual self interest, combined with patriotic fervor, did the trick.

 

[deltex1]

The "American exceptionalism" that many find so distasteful is the conservative attitude that people in other countries deserve somewhat less honesty and decency when dealing with our government or corporations than we would ever accept for ourselves and then thinking other peoples hate us for our freedoms. People hate us because American power is all too often duplicitous, reckless and greedy.

Thank you Bill Ayers.

 

[PoliticalChic]

"First, I want to thank God for making me an American..."

Ernie Banks,a Major League Baseball (MLB) shortstopand first baseman for 19 seasons on the National League's (NL) Chicago Cubs team, from 1953 through 1971. Banks was a National League All-Star for 11 seasons, playing in 14 All-Star games
Pirates Play Spoilers On Banks' Day - Chicago Tribune

 

[Peach]

Chomsky thus proved the exceptionalism, by merely denying it.

Can you elaborate?
It seems to me he proved all countries believe they are exceptional in spite of the many crimes in their past.

Was he in any way sanctioned for writing, speaking, and believing as he did? List nations so "lenient" in the breadth of ideas allowed.

 

[NYcarbineer]

American Exceptionalism is a manifestation of pride, and as all good conservative Christians will tell you...

"...Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall." Proverbs 16:18

Actually American pride is a manifestation of American exceptionalism, but you would have no way of knowing that because you are way too busy finding faults with the system that built this economic powerhouse.

American exceptionalism was demonstrated in 1943 and 1944, when the American system created more war materials in those two years than all of the other WWII participants, put together, did during the duration of the war. Once again, individual self interest, combined with patriotic fervor, did the trick.

Making war and materialism are our exceptional qualities? lol

 

[NYcarbineer]

The question was,

why would a nation as wealthy as the US have the need for so much charity?

...and the question remains unanswered...

 

[Unkotare]

One's been called the most important US intellectual alive by the NYT.

By the 'what'?

 

[emilynghiem]

I was never much of a U-2 fan, nor really paid much attention to the pronouncements of Bono......

...but in his speech at Georgetown University, he said some things that got right to my heart.....and on America's birthday, July 4th, they should be shared.





1. "[Here he was speaking of helping others].... the power of technology, is the leverage they give us…If we're willing to use it. And I think we are. I know we are, I know you are.

2. Anyways, it's not a right-left issue, it's a right-wrong issue. And America's consistently been on the side of what's right.





3. Because when it comes down to it, this is about keeping faith with the idea of America.

4. Because America is an idea, isn't it? I mean, Ireland's a great country, but it's not an idea. Great Britain's a great country, but it's not an idea.

5. That's how we see you around the world… as one of the greatest ideas in human history. Right up there with the Renaissance... right up there with crop rotation… The Beatles' White Album...

6. That idea, the America idea, it's an idea. The idea is that you and me are created equal…





7. It will ensure that an economic recession need not become an equality recession. The idea that life is not meant to be endured, but enjoyed. The idea that if we have dignity… if we have justice… then leave it to us, we can do the rest.





8. This country was the first to claw its way out of darkness and put that on paper. And God love you for it. Because these aren't just American ideas anymore. There's no copyright on them.
You've brought them into the world. It's a wide world now.



9. I know Americans say they have a bit of the world in them. And you do. The family tree has a lot of branches. But the thing is… the world has a bit of America in it, too. These truths… your truths… they are self-evident in us.

So those people I've been talking about today… the poor… they're not those people. They're not "them." They're "us." They're you. They may be separated from us by oceans and circumstance. But they dream as you dream. They value what you value.
There is no them, only us…





10.That American anthem is not exceptionalism… it's universalism. There is no them, only us.
Ubuntu: I am because we are… There is no them, only us."
Bono turns up the volume for social enterprise | Guardian Sustainable Business | Guardian Professional




God bless Bono.

God bless America.

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Bono America is an idea. That s how we see you around the world as one of the greatest ideas in human history AEI Carpe Diem Blog AEIdeas

For those who want to focus on the bad in American history and politics, sure,
and the good points and freedom of expression and creativity of American culture
is also the SOLUTION to all those bad things that happen along the human learning curve.

Ok to be realistic about both the good and bad, but remember what it takes to fix the problems:
freedom of speech, and of the press; free exercise of religion; right of the people peaceably
to assemble and to petition for redress of grievances; equal due process and protection of the
laws without discrimination by race, gender, color or creed including beliefs in either
separation of church and state, or separation of federal govt from rights of states and people.

Constitutionalism made natural laws statutory in America, and the point of the process is to perfect democratic representation so that all people of all tribes and nations can exercise and enforce the same natural standards for humanity.

 

[georgephillip]

One's been called the most important US intellectual alive by the NYT.

By the 'what'?

When are you planning to post your wiki?

 

[Unkotare]

When are you planning to post your wiki?

What "wiki," fool?