The dirty little secret of US History: America has had moments of greatness, but America has never been great. You can’t pick a single era of America’s past and not find some group being oppressed or some inequality being perpetrated by the wealthy.
Can you with any significant population? I think that’s more human nature than American Exceptional(-ly bad)ism. In fact, if you look back though history of people assigned the moniker “The Great”, the vast majority of them were right bastards.
Greatness is unfortunately often paired with awfulness.
The dirty little secret of US History: America has had moments of greatness, but America has never been great. You can’t pick a single era of America’s past and not find some group being oppressed or some inequality being perpetrated by the wealthy.
Can you with any significant population? I think that’s more human nature than American Exceptional(-ly bad)ism. In fact, if you look back though history of people assigned the moniker “The Great”, the vast majority of them were right bastards.
Greatness is unfortunately often paired with awfulness.