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American "exceptionalism" is a particularly dangerous set of blinders and an inevitably fatal hubris that's eventually brought down EVERY empire. People are people, power is power, greed is greed, fear is fear, lust is lust, motives are motives, wherever and whenever...1/
That recognition should bring both empathy and humility. We have a right to be proud of our Constitution and diligent efforts to tame the Hobbesian beast. But we also would do well to acknowledge our many failures in that endeavor and many cruelties and injustices along the way.
And ultimately to understand that no nation has ever succeeded in perfecting humanity or eliminating its baser motives. At best, we build a framework with checks, balances, controls. But to think that simply because we're Americans we all play by the rules is willful blindness.3/
And to think that election theft happens only in third-world countries and autocratic fake-democracy regimes is willfully to ignore the evidence that my colleagues in election forensics have spent 17 years gathering and analyzing. Helplessly watching such folly is painful. 4/4
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