American exceptionalism. We are the best. The greatest country on Earth. Gold medal winners all. Right?
Turns out we’re exceptionally the best at leading the world in COVID deaths, infections, hospitalizations. Not just by a little bit. We have close to 200 times more per capita cases than China. We are less than 5% of the World’s population, but we have 25% of the cases.
COVID is proving the failure of the American Experiment. The “American dream,” the cult of the individual, the Horatio Alger pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps, I built this by myself, story. The dream is a myth and its logical […]
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