Beinart: Sanders and Warren break with Obama on "American exceptionalism"

[Blue3]

Hopefully not as  America is the greatest nation the world has ever seen

Russia?

What about it??  Lol

They saved Western civilization almost single-handedly from the Mongols, Napoleon, and Adolf Hitler, yet no one talks about it.

Poland stopped the Mongols.
Napoleon was Western Civilization.


And who says Western Civilization is inherently superior?

[Progressive Pessimist]

They're right. America has an over-inflated sense of importance and purpose. Negativity succeeds in political campaigns anyway. We tried (mostly) optimism in 2016 and that didn't go so well. Trump did nothing but talk negatively about America and he won for it. Though I will say this. Things are still technically better than in the past, though we are at a very tenuous point in our history where much of that progress may be jeopardy. Though in the long run, progress always does end up winning, it's just a matter of how long it will take. But with Trump as President for four (or even *shudders*eight) years those blockades to progress are going to last a lot longer than they should.

[Nyssus]

They need to tell it how it is. America is a shell of its former self, with rising levels of increased wealth and income inequality and increased polarization with a declining respect for our institutions and authority. We shouldn't be blinded to American exceptionalism for no reason. America is a country. So is Canada. So is Mexico. We aren't inherently superior to any other nation.