Can I state the obvious? The American claim to exceptionalism is not quite what we were told it is. It is multi-dimensional.
At present, all I can hope for is that enough Americans will recognize those vectors which are worthy of our loyalty.
Never walked alone, even when I thought I was.
Re-read the first and last pages of the novel, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, by Thornton Wilder (1927).
Is that novel still commonly assigned reading in high school?
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