Should we stop teaching American exceptionalism?
That depends if it's the US Mass and Social Media definition of exeptionalism, or ...
The actual, original concept of American exceptionalism. I.e., that the freedom and no limitations on individuals in the US cause the best to rise to the top ... not that every American is exceptional, but those who end up leading are.
And not be destroyed ... like Ayn Rand successfully predicted in
Atlas Shrugged, that new ideas are ****ed by the oligarchy, which is unfolding before our eyes right now. We've destroyed both the small entrepreneur and individual investor, as everyone expects them to share, lose money, etc... which the oligarchy then still gets, and makes, and charges a lot more for ... thanks to government control. California's energy plan is a perfect example.
I can always tell people who have never read it when they talk about how it's unrestricted big business. There is no such thing. Big business is oligarchy, and with larger government control -- not regulation, but control and monopolies -- that's not capitalism at all. Which brings me to ...
It's funny how the left say it's because the powerful inherit their power, and no one makes themselves ... hence why they argue for more and bigger government. That's because the left -- with plenty of help from the right -- enables that with bigger and bigger government.
The lockdowns proved this too ... you've just gotta be establishment, elite and big enough to afford lobbyists and paying off the government. It was total hypocrisy. We literally saw big business do what we shut down small business for doing.
I get sick very time I think about it ... and how we've ****ed our economy as well as the sanity of young people too.