2026-07-05 10:48 UTC
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/04/us-history-destruction
> American exceptionalism runs deeper than belief. It’s ingrained, bred in the bone. There is no America without American exceptionalism.
> The United States increasingly feels like a country overwhelmed by history, smothered by a past it can neither face nor overcome. As the US has declined, politically, economically, socially, culturally, it has turned back to its origin more than ever before, in a doomed quest to retain its conviction of its exceptionality.
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@d2718@hachyderm.io 2026-07-05 11:34
@rysiek@mstdn.social As someone living in the middle of it, this does seem to be the... zeitgeist? of the political sphere. There are pockets and movements of sanity, but at the stratum where the power is, the US is very much a dying animal thrashing around and in denial about its limb caught in a trap: It could save itself with a little painful effort, but even _thinking_ about how to do that can't happen, because that would involve admitting the problem.
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@gonzo_askold@mastodon.social 2026-07-05 12:04
@rysiek@mstdn.social oh it's like russia but rich and little bit more competent