On American Exceptionalism

[LadyGunSlinger]

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Discombobulated[/B];9382514]America may be an exceptional place, but there's nothing exceptional about Americans.

Another autobiography.

If this forum is a representative cross section of this country Americans should have very little to feel exceptional about.

Present company included of course.

 

[PoliticalChic]

America may be an exceptional place, but there's nothing exceptional about Americans.

Another autobiography.

If this forum is a representative cross section of this country Americans should have very little to feel exceptional about.

Not true of the American I know.


My post was directed specifically to you.

 

[Discombobulated]

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Another autobiography.

If this forum is a representative cross section of this country Americans should have very little to feel exceptional about.

Present company included of course.

American Exceptionalism....another meaningless phrase rendered completely vague and obscure.

 

[Mr Natural]

American Exceptionalism sounds a lot like that Master Race crap Hitler was selling back in the '30s.

 

[LadyGunSlinger]

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If this forum is a representative cross section of this country Americans should have very little to feel exceptional about.

Present company included of course.

American Exceptionalism....another meaningless phrase rendered completely vague and obscure.

That doesn't relate to my statement. I couldn't care less what you think about my country.. My thought process was on your remark about those who post here being a sad representation of exceptionalism and yet here you are.. They have therapy for mindsets like yours.

 

[LadyGunSlinger]

American Exceptionalism sounds a lot like that Master Race crap Hitler was selling back in the '30s.

To a racist, sure. The left could make Big Bird a racist.. Your obsession with any and all things racist is truly remarkable. It shows a lack of clearly defined humanity in being able to understand and discern different opinions, selective reasoning.

 

[PoliticalChic]

It always makes me smile when conservatards use the phrase "American exceptionalism" as if it were something positive.



In short, America is exceptional because:

1. Americans are religious extremist zealots.

2. Americans are greedy, commercialized sell-outs.

3. Americans are inherently repulsed by civilized topics such as science, literature, and the arts.

4. Americans are only saved from becoming complete savages due to other countries developing our own culture for us.

5. Americans are only concerned with materialism and the petty struggles of day-to-day life, with no concern for anything greater.

De Tocqueville's Democracy in America coined the phrase "American exceptionalism" as an insult to the greedy, uneducated, crony capitalist, right-wing nutjobs that ran the country back in his time and continue to do so today. EVERY time you use this phrase, conservatards, the left joins the rest of the world in laughing at your complete lack of understanding of the buzzwords you cling to.

And by the way:



God doesn't exist. Deal with it.

Another angry dyke America hating liberal. And people wonder why conservatives dislike liberals so much. IT is because they spit on and disrespect everything we hold dear.
BUt here's a great explanation for why they do.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ODXgGS50AVY]Understanding How Modern Liberals Think - YouTube[/ame]

LM's Rule #1: No conservatard can argue without attempting to derail the thread towards another topic or flinging insults towards non-conservatards within two posts.

In the speech that JFK had prepared for delivery on the day that he was assassinated:

“ We in this country, in this generation, are--by destiny rather than choice--the watchmen on the walls of world freedom. We ask, therefore, that we may be worthy of our power and responsibility, that we may exercise our strength with wisdom and restraint, and that we may achieve in our time and for all time the ancient vision of "peace on earth, good will toward men."

That must always be our goal, and the righteousness of our cause must always underlie our strength. For as was written long ago: "except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain."
http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historica...sk/Speeches/JFK/003POF03TradeMart11221963.htm

 

[PoliticalChic]

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If this forum is a representative cross section of this country Americans should have very little to feel exceptional about.

Present company included of course.

American Exceptionalism....another meaningless phrase rendered completely vague and obscure.

JFK spoke glowingly about American excectionalism:

“…proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today an home and around the world… we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support nay friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”

And [we have been] “granted the role of defending freedom…The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.”




Too bad you don't subscribe to same.

 

[PoliticalChic]

American Exceptionalism sounds a lot like that Master Race crap Hitler was selling back in the '30s.

It no longer surprises me how little you government school grads understand.

Sorry to have dragged you away from the 24-hour All Cartoon Network

 

[Freewill]

It always makes me smile when conservatards use the phrase "American exceptionalism" as if it were something positive.



In short, America is exceptional because:

1. Americans are religious extremist zealots.

2. Americans are greedy, commercialized sell-outs.

3. Americans are inherently repulsed by civilized topics such as science, literature, and the arts.

4. Americans are only saved from becoming complete savages due to other countries developing our own culture for us.

5. Americans are only concerned with materialism and the petty struggles of day-to-day life, with no concern for anything greater.

De Tocqueville's Democracy in America coined the phrase "American exceptionalism" as an insult to the greedy, uneducated, crony capitalist, right-wing nutjobs that ran the country back in his time and continue to do so today. EVERY time you use this phrase, conservatards, the left joins the rest of the world in laughing at your complete lack of understanding of the buzzwords you cling to.

And by the way:



God doesn't exist. Deal with it.

No, America is exceptional because folks like you are allowed to stay.

Early thread- but best post of the thread I'd wager.. that says it all..

Thank you but I think that the video on "Understanding How Liberals Think" is the best. I usually don't watch things over a minute or two, ADD, but in this case I watched the whole video. I love it when people put into words exactly what I am thinking, I wish I could do that better.

 

[Toro]

It always makes me smile when conservatards use the phrase "American exceptionalism" as if it were something positive.

The position of the Americans is therefore quite exceptional, and it may be believed that no democratic people will ever be placed in a similar one. Their strictly Puritanical origin — their exclusively commercial habits — even the country they inhabit, which seems to divert their minds from the pursuit of science, literature, and the arts — the proximity of Europe, which allows them to neglect these pursuits without relapsing into barbarism — a thousand special causes, of which I have only been able to point out the most important — have singularly concurred to fix the mind of the American upon purely practical objects. His passions, his wants, his education, and everything about him seem to unite in drawing the native of the United States earthward: his religion alone bids him turn, from time to time, a transient and distracted glance to heaven. Let us cease then to view all democratic nations under the mask of the American people, and let us attempt to survey them at length with their own proper features.

In short, America is exceptional because:

1. Americans are religious extremist zealots.

2. Americans are greedy, commercialized sell-outs.

3. Americans are inherently repulsed by civilized topics such as science, literature, and the arts.

4. Americans are only saved from becoming complete savages due to other countries developing our own culture for us.

5. Americans are only concerned with materialism and the petty struggles of day-to-day life, with no concern for anything greater.

De Tocqueville's Democracy in America coined the phrase "American exceptionalism" as an insult to the greedy, uneducated, crony capitalist, right-wing nutjobs that ran the country back in his time and continue to do so today. EVERY time you use this phrase, conservatards, the left joins the rest of the world in laughing at your complete lack of understanding of the buzzwords you cling to.

Yeah.

So?

And I didn't know Bono was a conservatard.

You learn something new every day.

 

[Freewill]

American Exceptionalism sounds a lot like that Master Race crap Hitler was selling back in the '30s.

It no longer surprises me how little you government school grads understand.

Sorry to have dragged you away from the 24-hour All Cartoon Network

Wow, if you watched the video "Explaining how liberals think" tells exactly how a modern liberal makes the connection between the good that America has done to that of the evil of the Nazis. It is in the blood of the modern liberal to tear good down and raise up evil.

 

[georgephillip]

It always makes me smile when conservatards use the phrase "American exceptionalism" as if it were something positive.

The position of the Americans is therefore quite exceptional, and it may be believed that no democratic people will ever be placed in a similar one. Their strictly Puritanical origin — their exclusively commercial habits — even the country they inhabit, which seems to divert their minds from the pursuit of science, literature, and the arts — the proximity of Europe, which allows them to neglect these pursuits without relapsing into barbarism — a thousand special causes, of which I have only been able to point out the most important — have singularly concurred to fix the mind of the American upon purely practical objects. His passions, his wants, his education, and everything about him seem to unite in drawing the native of the United States earthward: his religion alone bids him turn, from time to time, a transient and distracted glance to heaven. Let us cease then to view all democratic nations under the mask of the American people, and let us attempt to survey them at length with their own proper features.

In short, America is exceptional because:

1. Americans are religious extremist zealots.

2. Americans are greedy, commercialized sell-outs.

3. Americans are inherently repulsed by civilized topics such as science, literature, and the arts.

4. Americans are only saved from becoming complete savages due to other countries developing our own culture for us.

5. Americans are only concerned with materialism and the petty struggles of day-to-day life, with no concern for anything greater.

De Tocqueville's Democracy in America coined the phrase "American exceptionalism" as an insult to the greedy, uneducated, crony capitalist, right-wing nutjobs that ran the country back in his time and continue to do so today. EVERY time you use this phrase, conservatards, the left joins the rest of the world in laughing at your complete lack of understanding of the buzzwords you cling to.

Yeah.

So?

And I didn't know Bono was a conservatard.

You learn something new every day.

Did you know he was RICH?

"Just days after U2 frontman Bono defended his band's decision to avoid Irish taxes by moving to the Netherlands, the musician, whose net worth is about $600 million, slammed big oil companies for either not paying taxes in countries where they operate or not disclosing what they pay."

And HYPOCRITICAL?

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=bono net worth

 

[PoliticalChic]

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.

Another post from an inhabitant of the Liberal echo-chamber.

As Bono says....that's not how the world sees American exceptionalism.



In “Escaping Submission,” Egyptian-born Nonie Darwish writes:

“I now belong to the greatest and most moral country that ever existed on the earth. The U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights [practiced in] this graceful country allowed me to practice any religion or no religion and gave me human rights I could only [have] dreamed of under Islam. I am lucky and more than lucky, I am saved. I was never discriminated against even after 9/11.”


God bless America.

 

[Toro]

It always makes me smile when conservatards use the phrase "American exceptionalism" as if it were something positive.



In short, America is exceptional because:

1. Americans are religious extremist zealots.

2. Americans are greedy, commercialized sell-outs.

3. Americans are inherently repulsed by civilized topics such as science, literature, and the arts.

4. Americans are only saved from becoming complete savages due to other countries developing our own culture for us.

5. Americans are only concerned with materialism and the petty struggles of day-to-day life, with no concern for anything greater.

De Tocqueville's Democracy in America coined the phrase "American exceptionalism" as an insult to the greedy, uneducated, crony capitalist, right-wing nutjobs that ran the country back in his time and continue to do so today. EVERY time you use this phrase, conservatards, the left joins the rest of the world in laughing at your complete lack of understanding of the buzzwords you cling to.

Yeah.

So?

And I didn't know Bono was a conservatard.

You learn something new every day.

Did you know he was RICH?

"Just days after U2 frontman Bono defended his band's decision to avoid Irish taxes by moving to the Netherlands, the musician, whose net worth is about $600 million, slammed big oil companies for either not paying taxes in countries where they operate or not disclosing what they pay."

And HYPOCRITICAL?

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=bono net worth

Bono is an Exceptional Musician.

 

[peach174]

American Exceptionalism sounds a lot like that Master Race crap Hitler was selling back in the '30s.

We have been using that phrase since the 1830's, one hundred years before Hitler Mr. uninformed one.

The World would be in a very bad place if America had never existed.
There would have been many, many countries that would be under dictators and tyrants.
It is really terrible that so many of you would rather believe the Anti Americans, their lies and their hatred of this country.
Do any of you even realize that the people who are saying crap like this are the children who were raised by parents and grandparents who believed in communism?
American Communists started using the English term "American exceptionalism" in factional fights in the 1920's and 30's.


Why do you all hate freedom so much?

 

[Discombobulated]

I'm still not seeing the exceptional part. Where is it? Maybe Americans are exceptional about buying their own advertising all the time.

 

[hazlnut]

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zqOYBabXmA&feature=kp"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zqOYBabXmA&feature=kp[/ame]

 

[hazlnut]

"It’s not the greatest country in the world professor, that’s my answer.

Sharon, the NEA is a loser, yeah, it accounts for a penny out of our paycheck but he gets to hit you with it any time he wants. It doesn’t cost money, it costs votes, it costs air time, it costs column inches. You know why people don’t like liberals? Because they lose. If liberals are so ******* smart, how come they lose so god damn always?

*Turns to conservative pundit*

And with a straight face you’re going to tell students that America is so star spangled awesome that we’re the only ones in the world that have freedom? Canada has freedom. Japan has freedom. The UK, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Australia, BELGIUM has freedom.

So, 207 sovereign states in the world, like 180 of them have freedom.

And you, sorority girl, just in case you accidentally wander into a voting booth one day there’s somethings you should know. One of them is there’s absolutely no evidence to support the statement that we’re the greatest country in the world. We’re 7th in literacy, 27th in math, 22nd in science, 49th in life expectancy, 178th in infant mortality, 3rd in median household income, Number 4 in labor force and Number 4 in exports, we lead the world in only three categories: Number of incarcerated citizens per capita, number of adults who believe angels are real, and defense spending where spend more than the next 26 countries combined, 25 of whom are allies.

Now none of this is the fault of a 20 year old college student, but you none the less are without a doubt a member of the worst period generation period ever period, so when you ask what makes us the greatest country in the world, I don’t know what the **** you’re talking about. Yosemite?

It sure used to be. We stood up for what was right. We fought for moral reasons. We passed laws, struck down laws for moral reasons. We waged wars on poverty, not poor people. We sacrificed, we cared about our neighbors, we put our money where our mouths were and we never beat our chests. We built great big things, made ungodly technological advances, explored the universe, cured diseases, and cultivated the world’s greatest artists and the world’s greatest economy. We reached for the stars, acted like men, we aspired to intelligence, we didn’t belittle it, it didn’t make us feel inferior.

We didn’t identify ourselves by who we voted for in the last election and we didn’t scare so easy. We were able to be all these things and do all these things because we were informed, by great men, men who were revered. First step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one. America is not the greatest country in the world anymore. Enough?”

 

[PoliticalChic]

I'm still not seeing the exceptional part. Where is it? Maybe Americans are exceptional about buying their own advertising all the time.

"American superiority in all matters of science, economics, industry, politics, business, medicine, engineering, social life, social justice and, of course, the military was total and indisputable. Even Europeans suffering the pangs of wounded chauvinism looked on with awe at the brilliant example the United States had set for the world as the third millennium began." Tom Wolfe, “Hooking Up”