The truly exceptional thing about the US is its development of interchangeable-parts economics at scale. Idea originated in France but the US actually developed the whole stack, all the way up to interchangeable humans. Maybe that explains exceptional attachment to exceptionalism
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Isn’t the exceptionalism a hangover from a marketing campaign designed to get poor people to leave their homes and take incredibly difficult, dangerous voyages to an untamed colony where warm bodies were needed to till fields and work factories?
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