{"id":39558,"date":"2013-11-04T09:06:44","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T16:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/04\/america-and-the-world.html"},"modified":"2013-11-04T15:28:25","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T22:28:25","slug":"america-and-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/04\/america-and-the-world.html","title":{"rendered":"America and the World"},"content":{"rendered":"
American Exceptionalism is getting more and more removed from reality.\u00a0 We've gone from "We can do it!" to "It's off the table."<\/p>\n

'Worse, whenever you\u2019d visit China or Singapore, it was always the people there who used to be on the defensive when discussing democracy. Now, as an American, you\u2019re the one who wants to steer away from that subject. After all, how much should we be bragging about a system where it takes $20 million to be elected to the Senate; or where a majority of our members of Congress choose their voters through gerrymandering rather than voters choosing them; or where voting rights laws are being weakened; or where lawmakers spend most of their free time raising money, not studying issues; or where our Congress has become a forum for legalized bribery; or where we just had a minority of a minority threaten to undermine America\u2019s credit rating if we didn\u2019t overturn an enacted law on health care; or where we can\u2019t pass even the most common sense gun law banning assault weapons after the mass murder of schoolchildren?'<\/i><\/div>\n

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Calling America: Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello?<\/a>
\n Once the envy of others, the U.S. is more likely to be scrutinized these days.\n <\/p>\n

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American Exceptionalism is getting more and more removed from reality.\u00a0 We've gone from "We can do it!" to "It's off the table." 'Worse, whenever you\u2019d visit China or Singapore, it was always the people there who used to be on the defensive when discussing democracy. 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