“Damn Straight” Quote of the Day: Gabler on American exceptionalism

From Neal Gabler in the Boston Globe, who truly rips through the silly case for American superiority:

There is nothing wrong with self-satisfaction or national pride. But the incessant trumpeting of our national superiority to every other country in the world is more than just off-putting and insulting. It is infantile, like the vaunting of a schoolyard bully that his Dad is better than your Dad. It is wrong.

Exactly. America has so many problems plaguing it, that to claim it is the bestest country in the world is overzealous at best – delusional at worst.

(via Dispatches From the Culture Wars)