Re: Sacred tangent (was Re: just checking...)

On Fri, 14 Jan 2011, Bruce Geerdes wrote:

>> Buttressing the tendency of many Americans to have a hallowed, 
>> quasi-religious view of their founding documents and their historical 
>> artefacts etc. is a big, big problem.
>
> I fail to see that. How has this "big, big problem" exhibited itself in 
> undesirable ways?

I haven't been keeping a catalogue, but FWIW, thinking the U.S. is God's 
special gift to the Earth is a particular (and not uncommon) form of 
"exceptionalism" (and Palin did make an explicitly pro-exceptionalism 
statement or two in her statement), and to the degree that any of 
America's less-desirable policies have been motivated or buttressed by a 
belief in exceptionalism, there would seem to be some overlap there.

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