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AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM

Yes America is exceptional. An outlier in any plot of industrialized nations. The origins of this are no secret mystery shrouded behind demonic fumes of cultish smoke - but rather self evident. Here people have rights - power is ceded from the people to government by consent - not the other way around. The U.S. has more freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of press, gun rights, freedom from search and seizure, due process rights than any other nation. And yet many would allege that we are living in police state. Europe can easily apprehend terrorists because domestic intelligence is much less constrained. Libel is much easier to prove in most other democracies than ours. Guns and self defense are state monopolies in other advanced nations. People are tried and convicted in absentia in other places. These governments are illegitimate according to natural law theory. Unfortunately, here, the commerce and general welfare clauses have been used by activist judges and progressive politicians in an attempt to right all the wrongs in life and have created quite a bastardised enforcement of enumerated powers - and yet the U.S. is still the leading nation, among the world, in limited government. Economically individual states have 1st world sized output, and individual cities have more production than entire 2nd world countries. So a glass half full outlook should inspire us to maintain our political competitive advantage, bestow this knowledge to the next generation, and hope for a future when "in the course of human events...