Unexceptional America

So says Michael Kinsley in the "US is Not Greatest Country Ever."   A liberal who thinks America unexceptional, who'd have thought?

Believe it or not, there is one small bit of wisdom to be gleaned from the article.  It has finally occurred to Mr. Kinsley, mostly because his ideology and the political party that represents it took a drubbing last week,  that vox populi is not always the same as vox dei.  True enough, but I'm afraid that little slice of common sense would be more acceptable coming from a conservative than from a liberal.  I mean, it is liberals who routinely engage in class-warfare demagoguery of the soak-the-rich kind, isn't it?

But that aside, I would still like to ask Mr. Kinsley one simple question:  If you liberals insist on telling every child, from the day he manages to avoid your state-funded abortion until he's 26 years of age and finally responsible for his own health care, that he's special, exceptional even, then why can't we, America, say the same thing about our nation?