On American Exceptionalism

[rodney_g_graves]

Not to be confused with Patriotism nor Nationalism nor Chauvanism.

Bill Whittle makes the case for American Exceptionalism, without confusing the term for nationalism nor chauvanism.

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Good Video

[zakueins]

It's almost like the people espousing the counter position want to hate what we have.

Bill Whittle has always done great essays and articles. America may not be perfect, but it's a damn slight better than about 90%+ of most other nations.

[jetfx]

Well I had to smirk when he referred to Bill Maher as a "towering liberal intellectual

American Exceptionalism Defended

[rodney_g_graves]

First, I will take it as given that jetfx concedes Whittle's points concerning Military Dominance and lack of Imperial Ambition, while noting that those two items in combination are sufficiently un-precedented to make the case of American Exceptionalism in their own right,

Instead jetfx chooses to argue on the basis of capitation.

Which leads directly to another argument for American Exceptionalism: Net Migration.

The United States is a nation of immigrants. We have grown our population more from immigration than from natural growth. We have attracted not only the "poor downtrodden masses, longing to be free" but also the doctors, engineers, scientists, and mathematicians who longed for that same freedom.

We have a vastly larger population than any other developed nation because we are a shining city on a hill which beckons to those who long to be free, and who long to become American:

Americans are self selected