{"id":446766,"date":"2010-03-19T07:55:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T11:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7655103.post-1484800381187041401"},"modified":"2010-03-19T08:36:56","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T12:36:56","slug":"american-exceptionalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/446766","title":{"rendered":"American Exceptionalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A term we&#8217;ve heard a lot lately with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/2010\/03\/11\/kelly-shackelford-texas-textbook-social-studies-standards-american-history\/\">Texas textbook showdown<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_OR8dKL3XDN8\/S6LuUmyny3I\/AAAAAAAAFP8\/pSYf-E0PsK4\/s1600-h\/FeaturedImage.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 253px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_OR8dKL3XDN8\/S6LuUmyny3I\/AAAAAAAAFP8\/pSYf-E0PsK4\/s400\/FeaturedImage.jpeg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450180536849386354\" \/><\/a><br \/>I remember after 9\/11 thinking that as horrific as the day was&#8230;that it had probably ended racism. I thought Americanism would prevail. That we&#8217;d band together and hate them more than we hated each other. Like they did the Japanese and the Germans in early 40&#8217;s. I thought we were going to embrace jingoism and WIN.<\/p>\n<p>But, I don&#8217;t need to tell you that didn&#8217;t happen. In fact, quite the opposite. The Left would embrace terrorists into their ranks before they would someone from the right. And in the aftermath of 9\/11 we&#8217;ve been pressured to become &#8216;world citizens.&#8217; <\/p>\n<p>SO, since we&#8217;re supposed to learn from history&#8230;I&#8217;m wondering why it&#8217;s the greatest generation that seems to have raised the worst generation. Why do the children of the greatest generation want to dismantle all that their parents fought for and loved?<\/p>\n<p>If American exceptionalism had prevailed after 9\/11 and America truly was 50 States UNITED against those that would do her harm&#8230;the horror would have served a noble purpose. Instead, it remains a senseless travesty&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7655103-1484800381187041401?l=mobyrebuttal.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A term we&#8217;ve heard a lot lately with the Texas textbook showdown. I remember after 9\/11 thinking that as horrific as the day was&#8230;that it had probably ended racism. I thought Americanism would prevail. That we&#8217;d band together and hate them more than we hated each other. Like they did the Japanese and the Germans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}