[Kaj]

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Ah, the moral authority of the United States in not contrived and baseless. I'll tell you why.

Here's a challenge that will illustrate.

Pick a metric about quality of life or standard of living. You will find that in a little over 200 years of history, the US has produced a society which has far eclipsed any accomplishment in those areas of any other nation or civilization in the history or the world. Ever.

The belief in American exceptionalism is based in results. Concrete, undeniable, irrefutable fact. To not believe in American exceptionalism is to deny history.

This is how the moral authority of the US has been established. This is also why no other force in history has been able to compete with it.

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Flawed, it assumes that because people who lived in America in the past made decisions that lead to dominance that the decisions made by current, or very recent individuals follow the same potential.

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It also assumes that those who made decisions that led to dominance made the right moral decisions -- as if wealth (or even overt plundering) makes right.