[cashflyer]

Exceptionalism is like a sandwich.
The restaurant has everything necessary to build a sandwich (opportunity), however you must have staff to build it (realization). If everyone sits at the counter and waits on the sandwich to be brought to them, but there is nobody making the sandwich, then they will all go hungry (missed opportunity due to excess mayonnaise).

America was, and still is, the land of opportunity.
People need to take advantage of the opportunities, and stop taking advantage of each other.