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Well, gee ... How about Liberty??? How about "inalienable rights?" How about our Constitution (no other country has a written Constitution). How about the idea of "self government?"
Americans bragging about their freedom is like an 80-year-old retired prostitute bragging about her virginity.
It's the dogmatic ignorance that allows Americans to think that the lessons of history don't apply to them. American "values" are holy and objectively and eminently desirable. It is "special," just like every other dead empire with universalist pretensions. If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, then American Exceptionalism is essentially national insanity.