[theospeak]

You can't serious believe that this is an America only phenomenon. People have been "fighting for what they believe in" in all countries. A lot of them with higher stakes. This is not "exceptional".

This article is looking in all the wrong places,whereas the truth is much simpler and was always screaming from the outside, but America was deafened by it's "specialness".

Both parties veered right - one just more obvious then the other. That is what the people wanted. That is what the people chose. And that is what the people will pay for.

It doesn't help that Americans are trying left, right and center to find excuses for their rapid decline. Talking about how it was 30% who brought this on everyone else.

If that ws the case then Kamala would be president.

Own it.

[techpineapple]

I didn’t say only in America, I said stronger in America. Freedom is a global value but probably stronger in America too(to a fault, I think some of these values are taken to excess in American society to the point of pathology)

“It doesn’t help that Americans are trying left, right and center to find excuses for their rapid decline. Talking about how it was 30% who brought this on everyone else”

To me this is the core thrust of the article.

[theospeak]

Agreed. You did not say "Only in America". Everybody wants to be free. Some just believe they are more free then others, until proven otherwise.

This is not a fault of the average American,but more an indictment of an insular education system which does not address much of the world.

And that is why college educated Americans have strikingly different world views from the ones who just finished high school. The highschoolers have been "taught", and there was nothing in their personal experience or further education to change their minds, until they are exposed to places that are less insulated of course, because TV and social media can only do so much.