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-de Toke wrote about the USA back in the 1820's when the USA was still on the come. We did become #1 after he wrote his stuff. So there is a big difference between what is classically known as American exceptional ism and the malaise that has been manifesting itself over the last 40 years The malaise that we suffer from now is the "WE HAVE IT MADE IN THE SHADE" syndrome, which means we don't have to try anymore. The GREATEST proponent of that syndrome is none other than Barrack Obama when he so boldly said, "It is a shame that a RICH NATION like American has 45 M people without HC." In other words he said, "Why we can afford it all without consequence." Well one guesses that he is finding out differently.