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Democrats... democrats... democrats....
Your claim of American exceptionalism is completely disproved by America being the origin of the democrats. Only in America could they have come into existence, and in a unique American way.
That puts Germany way ahead,.
Of course it wasn't, you dunce.
Here's your remedial.
The Founders, classical liberals, conservatives
a. individualism, free markets, and limited constitutional government.
“free markets, free voices, free people”
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Fascists, Nazis, Liberals, Progressives, Socialists, Communists, Democrats
b. the collective, command and control regulation of private industry, and overarching government that can order every aspect of the private citizen's life....right down to control of his thoughts and speech.
Germany???
Really????
This?
The Germans have a history of embracing authoritarian rule. As the German philosopher Hegel said, “The state says … you must obey …. The state has rights against the individual; its members have obligations, among them that of obeying without protest” (Ralf Dahrendorf, Society and Democracy in Germany).
I am surprised that you don’t feel conspicuous, marching around in that brown shirt and the helmet with the spike on top….