The Myth Of American Exceptionalism (the OP)
Originally posted 5/19/06

I just read a piece on Yahoo News that when combined with a post alma made got me thinking about that disgusting bullshit justification that is bandied about so fucking freely. How 'Merkins are so much better, morally, than other peoples. The myth of American exceptionalism. It's crap.

Take this juicy bit from Yahoo. Prisoners in Gitmo have been so abused, so tortured, that they now work together to commit suicide. Ain't we proud? How many other countries can claim to have such exceptionalism? The Nazis of the 1940s, perhaps.

Of course, that is just one (of hundreds) incident. I'm absolutely positive that the Rightie-Tighties will ignore this. After all, their entire world falls apart if they partake in any way of reality. Brings a whole new light to their strict belief in the myth of how Adam and Steve were banned from the Garden of Eden, doesn't it? In Rethuglicania, as in the Garden of Eden, any amount of self-knowledge or knowledge of the world is punished by banning. Shunning, if you will.

For those of us not stuck in some evil system of denial it is quite clear. Americans are no better than anyone else in the world. None. Not even slightly. We kill, maim, torture, imprison, and worse. We shoot women and children in the back of the head while they pray. We make shit up as a pretext to invade. Then we take what we want, shit on the rest, and dare anyone to so much as protest.

The United States is my country. I was born here. I defended it for fifteen years. I am ashamed of how we act now. I have nothing but contempt for those who support this shit.

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"Go fuck yourself!"
-- VP Dick "I gots other priorities, bitches" Cheney on the floor of the United States Senate
And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.
-- Plato