Un-American Exceptionalism

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Here is an article I found..... I agree with most of it.

9/22/2013
Un-American Exceptionalism
(S. J Morris)

Yeah—the U.S. Supreme Court declared that corporations are people. Well, why don’t they take it a step further? For some time now, the hyperbolic slogan has been, “One Nation Under God.” That is a pretty presumptuous assertion and theocratic conclusion. Let the high court declare, “America is God.” Why not? The religious right treats America like it’s some sort of jealous God. This God is a strict deity. You show God that you are willing to work hard or sacrifice your life on the battlefield and, once you satisfy God’s requirements, he becomes your spiritual sugar daddy. Not only are you rewarded with wealth and power, you are than given the status of, “Exemption Immunity.” What does that mean? It means you can sit on your ass and not do anything, because you have butlers and maids doing everything for you. You can then have your own think tank disseminate the propaganda of self-reliance and the virtues of the free market. After all, if you are the right gender or race, then you are the “High Priest/Priestess under God.” God has anointed you because you are one tenth of the one percent.
God doesn’t dig left wing ingrates and malcontents. How dare they blaspheme God’s magnanimous, intelligent design! God created the best country in the world, and you freaks get uptight because a few war vets are sleeping in the streets and oil refineries pollute the air? You pinkos will burn in the lake of fire, and I don’t mean the Cuyahoga River! Lese Majesty!
You say I am antropomorphizing a physical land mass? No. You say I am some type of Pantheist screwball? Wrong! America is God! Why?? Because millions of people want to come here and be part of the omnipotent nation and kiss its feet!
Okay--stop it! Charade is over. Of course, I am kidding. However, I’ll bet you—dime to donuts—that there are people who swear by this. Why?—because of the absurdity of Jingoism.
You may have heard the term, “American Exceptionalism.” The neo-cons embraced this term like a New Age Hippie hugging a tree! Where does it come from, historically? Some say it comes from Alexis De Tocqueville (1805 – 1859). He was a French writer and statesman who wrote a book praising the U.S.A. called, “Democracy in America.” He never used the phrase “American Exceptionalism,” and neither did Seymour Martin, who ever he was. You want to know where it really came from? Hold on to your hats, a tornado of truth is about to blow you away! It came from the delegates of the Communist Party USA, circa 1920. You see, Stalin was bum rapping the United States Commie party as a joke, so they responded by writing essays about “American Exceptionalism.”
Today, the term is as phony as the term “Americanism,” unless you are thinking of The American Legion, who actually adopted it. Scholars and some quarters of the media use the term gratuitously, without knowing the etymology of the phrase. There was never an official adoption or academic acknowledgement of it; at best, it is political colloquial speech that has been floating around in political circles for years. Maybe it can be likened to the many slang terms that made their way into Webster’s Dictionary.
So, the truth is: there is no such thing as “American Exceptionalism.”

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1. Oh...one more thing

I want the constitution to run our foreign policies not The American Enterprise Institute and I want the constitution to run both houses! Not the Tea Party!