American Exceptionalism?

I saw this video earlier today from and by Professor Robert Reich on this pandemic, our response as a nation and our results.


It got me thinking, thinking about America and what and who we are.

• Worst pandemic response in the world.
• More cases of coronavirus and more deaths, both, than any other nation.
• More incarcerated citizens than any other nation, bar none and including far more populated China and India.
• Spend more, far more, on war than any other nation, far and away.
• Spend more, far more, again, than ANY OTHER NATION on health care.
• Only Western, industrialized nation without universal health care.
• Only Western, industrialized nation to tie health care to corporate profit and profits.
• Nation with the most guns in the world.
• Nation with the most homocides and killings, worldwide, again, far and away.

At minimum.

Oh, yeah.

We're "exceptional", all right.