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by yencabulator 603 days ago
What kind of American exceptionalism is that? There are countries significantly more democratic and happy than USA.
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> What kind of American exceptionalism is that?

This is emotional manipulation and not an argument.

> There are countries significantly more democratic and happy than USA.

Red herring. None of those countries are near the size of the USA. Policies and governance systems are not scale-invariant, and there are many naive ideas that sound good on paper (and may work for small groups of people and/or short timescales) but do not stablely scale to 100 million+ people.