[LS]

Did you read my comments in the NRO article? They only excerpted a few of them. If you want a blow-by-blow attack on the AP standards, see my detailed comments here;

https://www.nas.org/articles/2015_apush_misses_the_reasons_america_is_exceptional

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Did you read my comments in the NRO article? They only excerpted a few of them. If you want a blow-by-blow attack on the AP standards, see my detailed comments here; https://www.nas.org/articles/2015_apush_misses_the_reasons_america_is_exceptional

Wow, Larry, that’s a great article. Great specifics which were carefully avoided by the standards.

Just as an overview argument, “American Exceptionalism is, IMHO, merely the fact that the American Great Experiment was - an experiment. It had to deliver “the blessings of liberty” or be a failure. To say that America is not exceptional is to say that it is a failure.

But to say that America is a failure flies in the face of the historic American Immigration phenomenon. People do leave America - but people want to come. Yes, land ownership is more available here - in places. But even that is an artifact of the “domestic tranquility” established here. And yet we see anti conservative activism subverting tranquility, a government working against its own authority.