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Sunday, July 7, 2024

Is America a City on a Hill or a Nation on the Precipice?

…the American creed — which he defined as a mix of liberty, egalitarianism, individualism, populism and laissez-faire — "fosters a high sense of personal responsibility, independent initiative and voluntarism even as it also encourages self-serving behavior, atomism and a disregard for communal good."

In other words, the downside to the United States doesn't just coexist with the upside; it is inextricable from it…

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/opinion/american-exceptionalism-reagan-biden-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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