Marco Rubio: “We have reached a point in our history when we must decide if we are to continue on the free market, limited government path that has made ... [the United States] exceptional.” (1)
What is U.S. exceptionalism?
David Rieff is a journalist, author and former fellow of the American Academy in Berlin.
“I think it is American exceptionalism itself, as our official national ideology, that is now
Joseph Lepgold and Timothy McKeown have found little empirical evidence for claims that American foreign policy behavior is exceptional. Faults and blemishes riddle American history as much as that of any other nation ... there has remained throughout American history a strong belief that the United States is an exceptional nation, not only unique but also superior among nations. (3)
Paul Raushenbush:
“If a person or a group of people aren't for the Republicans then they are anti-American. And by the extension of American exceptionalism - these same people are anti God and God's mission.” (4)
JG: In the 1930's, Adolf Hitler gave the world his ideology of Arian supremacy. In my opinion, those who promote the so-called American exceptionalism ideology are camouflaging their Neo-Nazi beliefs. There is a very strong racist sentiment among the followers of Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, Sharon Angle and other Tea Party Nuts.
(1) Time Magazine, The Party Crashers: Behind the New Republican Revival, Oct. 28, 2010.
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,2027959,00.html#ixzz143d1OOCk
(2) David Rieff: Ideology of Exceptionalism is Dangerous to America's National Interest
http://atlanticreview.org/archives/443-Rieff-Ideology-of-Exceptionalism-is-Dangerous-to-Americas-National-Interest.html
(3) Exceptionalism - What is exceptionalism?
http://www.americanforeignrelations.com/E-N/Exceptionalism-What-is-exceptionalism.html#ixzz143em4Mn3
(4)Idolizing Ideology: Republican Exceptionalism
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-raushenbush/idolizing-ideology-republ_b_135990.html
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