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OP, have you lived or worked abroad? Just wondering. It is easy to become myopic or to fetishize what is perceived as exotic without first hand experience of how things really are.
Amy Chua has a pretty good piece in the Atlantic. She has a great quote, "As professors specializing in constitutional law and comparative politics, we’re often asked whether there’s another country that could serve as a model for the United States as it attempts to overcome its divisions. We always respond no—America is the best model."
Yes, the U.S. has significant problems. Speaking as one who has been at the pointy end of the spear implementing national policy abroad, my experience is that human nature is fundamentally the same everywhere. Human beings are fallen. The U.S., as have all governments and peoples, has committed unspeakable horrors throughout its history.
Yet of all the various governments and peoples, the U.S. in particular has enabled freedom and prosperity on a level impossible to appreciate until you have seen the depths of poverty and authoritarianism elsewhere. Sure it is a work in progress, but i don't think most Americans truly understand just how rare such a society is, and how blessed they are to be part of it, when considering the full breadth of human history.
Reference: The Threat of Tribalism
Amy Chua has a pretty good piece in the Atlantic. She has a great quote, "As professors specializing in constitutional law and comparative politics, we’re often asked whether there’s another country that could serve as a model for the United States as it attempts to overcome its divisions. We always respond no—America is the best model."
Yes, the U.S. has significant problems. Speaking as one who has been at the pointy end of the spear implementing national policy abroad, my experience is that human nature is fundamentally the same everywhere. Human beings are fallen. The U.S., as have all governments and peoples, has committed unspeakable horrors throughout its history.
Yet of all the various governments and peoples, the U.S. in particular has enabled freedom and prosperity on a level impossible to appreciate until you have seen the depths of poverty and authoritarianism elsewhere. Sure it is a work in progress, but i don't think most Americans truly understand just how rare such a society is, and how blessed they are to be part of it, when considering the full breadth of human history.
Reference: The Threat of Tribalism
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