The US is truly exceptional. What other country could have produced a leader as exceptional as Trump, a man who combined the talents of a gangster, grifter, bully, bullshitter, liar, pedophile, rapist, racist, fascist, traitor....and elected him to the highest office in the land -- not once but twice.
Under Trump 2, the US has become more exceptional than ever. His bellicose actions toward Canada, Mexico, Venezuela, Greenland, Iran, Cuba, and Nigeria are merely the latest examples of American Exceptionalism.
"American Exceptionalism" derives from the argument that the USA is fundamentally different from other countries; that it is superior to them, "Number 1," "The Greatest Country in the World." The reality is reminiscent of Orwell's 1984.
American exceptions abound:
The only wealthy country without a system of universal health insurance coverage. Existing health insurance plans verge on robbery. Under Trump 2, millions have lost even the most minimal health coverage.
A Department of Health and Human Services led by "Worm Brain" R.F. Kennedy Jr, doing its best to revive diseases previous generations had virtually eliminated and to bring us more epidemics and pandemics. Measles is the latest revived disease, thanks to anti-vaccine propaganda. You would almost think the Trump regime is trying to kill you.
A Department of Défense (War?) led by "Whiskey Pete" Hegseth that thinks indiscriminate killing of civilians around the world is "legal" and Christian.
A Department of Homeland Security under "Who is it Today?" that spends most of its time terrorizing and killing the American people. Now adding airports to its mission in a bid to destroy the airlines by making flying increasingly dangerous.
A Department of Justice under Pam "Hide the Epstein Files" Bondi, devoted to undermining existing laws, eroding human rights, and protecting pedophiles.
A minimum wage far below the level of a "living wage."
A railway system far inferior to that of every other developed country. Poor public transit in much of the country.
A deteriorating public education system, which helps the GOP to repeatedly con illiterate voters.
A government friendly to pedophiles and other sexual predators.
Number 1 in billionaires.
Number 1 in medical bankruptcies.
Number 1 in mass shootings.
Number 1 in Covid deaths.
The US is currently in the grip of Christian-capitalist fascism. Its evolution into this obscene system did not begin with Trump. It is the result of decades of far right brainwashing and the gradual erosion of constitutional and legal protections of political and human rights.
Trump is a product, a symptom, of the current malignant version of American Exceptionalism. He did not create it. It will not go away when he does without radical reform of the political, economic, and cultural systems.
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