Talk:American exceptionalism

You can thank wikipedia for the commas, in your copious spare time. 06:26, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

Theoretical realism and liberal realities
The article states "Many scholars, like Samuel Huntington, in his book Clash of Civilizations, or the entire realist school of international relations, have a hard time understanding this part of US foreign policy." My understanding is not that the modern IR realists don't understand liberal (idealistic) foreign policy, but rather that they recommend against it. --Peter Talk 02:22, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

Material from BoN I reverted
There might be the faint trace of a point to the text that was added by a BoN, and which I reverted:


 * Paradoxically, another form of American exceptionalism exists among certain figures in the left, particularly hardline critics. This version does its best to highlight the aforementioned "bad" history even at the expense of ignoring or hand-waving other aspects of America's past. It also goes through considerable lengths in making the United States as an imperialist menace/threat to world peace and generally a symbol of all that's wrong with the world. In other words...it's pretty much the mirror image of the neoconservative version, not too dissimilar to Howard Zinn's line of thought.

A Russian website doesn't seem to support the claim being made all that well, though. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 03:40, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

Major rewriting
This article is good but it should be rewritten. We should point out that not only the term "American exceptionalism" but also the idea that America is unique was coined by communists and discuss the propensity of right-wingers to hijack leftist terminology (such as the term libertarian that went from being an ideology that supports a stateless direct democracy to describe a form of corporatocratic minarchism). Also put that text about slavery, genocide and warmongering and the belief that American is immune to fascism should be in a seperate section within the article. Tuxer (talk) 20:00, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

Quote
These people are such LOSERS that being born in America is their first, last and only achievement.--Кřěĵ (ṫåɬк) 06:50, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

Socialism gaining ground
It wasn't for lack of trying. Labor conditions were godawful way back when, and this was ripe for socialist organizing. A combination of ruthless political suppression (funny, that), the New Deal making life palatable for the white majority, and the Soviet Union put a cap on that. VeeMeow? 03:14, 7 March 2023 (UTC)