The Nasty Myth of American Exceptionalism

Karen Shiebler
5 min readJan 10, 2020

Are we really the world’s most moral, honest, democratic nation?

“American Flags” by Dricker94 is licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0

American Exceptionalism is defined by Sensagent as “American exceptionalism is ”the theory that the United States is different from other countries in that it has a specific world mission to spread liberty and democracy.”

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Karen Shiebler

A Mother, a grandmother, a progressive voter. I write because it’s getting harder to march and because words are my weapon. I blog at momshieb.wordpress.com