AA said:
We should be practicing the morally superior principles we stand for. We should be encouraging a healthy and secure middle class. (It's the middle class that drives the economy, not so-called "job creators".) We should be encouraging a world-class education system and the promotion of engineers and scientists. We win in the world when our technology and products kick ***. That's real, sustainable prestige.
I define exceptionalism--in both the individual and the state--not as wealth or power or prestige, but as a willingness to act according to morally superior principles while striving towards morally superior ideals.
We should be practicing the morally superior principles we stand for. We should be encouraging a healthy and secure middle class. (It's the middle class that drives the economy, not so-called "job creators".) We should be encouraging a world-class education system and the promotion of engineers and scientists. We win in the world when our technology and products kick ***. That's real, sustainable prestige.