Joshua Holland (@JoshuaHolland@mastodon.social)

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Our whole system was built on compromises with slavers, the filibuster was a result of a drafting error when Senate rules were consolidated in 1806, Marbury v Madison didn’t empower SCOTUS to overturn laws and when we built govs from scratch in Germany and Japan we went with parliamentary systems.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/10/youth-democracy-united-states-unique/680344/ #media #americanexceptionalism

From “The Death of American Exceptionalism” in The Atlantic:

In a similar way, many citizens hold overly positive, but possibly necessary, beliefs about their country. A sense of national pride can foster community and bring people together, and it’s often a sign of a thriving democracy. In the United States, one source of patriotism is American exceptionalism—the idea that the U.S. is a unique, and uniquely superior, nation. With its origin as a democracy in a world of kingdoms and its emphasis on freedom and opportunity, this narrative goes, the American system is out of the ordinary.
Among the young, that belief is rapidly dying.

Since 1976, a large nationally representative survey has asked U.S. high-school seniors, 17 and 18 years old, whether they agree that “Despite its many faults, our system of doing things is still the best in the world”: a fairly succinct summary of American exceptionalism. In the early 1980s, 67 percent of high-school seniors agreed that the U.S. system was the best. By 2022, only 27 percent did. Thus, only one out of four American teens now agrees that their country is exceptional.

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