My good friend Joe Fab sent me his thoughts on the idea of "American Exceptionalism" that is being used as a foundational principle for Republican presidential candidates in 2012. The Wash Post did a piece on this unfortunate development yesterday and it prompted these thoughts from Mr. Fab: I'm proud and feel very fortunate to be an American. But I know that I'm here by good luck, not
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Yes, very well put. Back when I was studying Political Science, American exceptionalism was, at best, a neutral term to describe the fact that the US is the only industrialized democracy without a viable socialist/labor party. From that neutral statement, though, you could move to the next obvious point that our exceptionalism in many regards (e.g. health care outcomes, infant mortality