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In this lesson, we will look at some of the core American ideals and key national symbols. CORE AMERICAN IDEALS. If you're thinking about ideals like democracy, freedom, liberty, equality, justice, and opportunity, you're on the right track.
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On the domestic scene, at least, it has often been the case that when America's professed ideals collide with its reality, the reality has given way.

A country that celebrates July 4 as "Independence Day" was going to have to reconcile its talk of liberty with slavery sooner or later, was always going to have to wrestle with Jim Crow. We're still wrestling, but a great thing you can say about this country is that given the choice between our ugly selves and our beautiful aspirations, we've often elected to try to reach for our aspirations.

The myth has also been used as a cudgel. For every person who pointed out that America's interference in Iran in the s helped set loose reactionary forces in the Middle East that persist to this day, there have been two or three hawkish conservatives quick to label those observations as part of a " blame America " attitude and who have decried efforts at "moral equivalency. Andrew Cuomo D said in August that America " was never that great ," he basically wrote the obituary for his presidential dreams.

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Then Trump came along sounding for all the world like Howard Zinn , and Republicans eagerly signed on. Trump wasn't wrong. It's just that politicians who wanted to be president had never been allowed to say such things publicly. And it wasn't an isolated incident: Over time, he has tended to speak highly of autocratic strongmen while generally downplaying American virtue. Of course, Trump hasn't been calling the United States to account. He was — and is — making a case for power, pure and simple.

There have long been two ways of looking at the idea of American exceptionalism: One is that this country is exceptionally powerful. The other is that this country is exceptionally good. Most successful politicians have fused the two ideas, convincing the country that might makes right — even if our leaders have mostly been too smart to ever use such a loaded term.

Racism Has Thwarted American Ideals From the Beginning, and Still Does

Trump occasionally pays lip service to American goodness, but it's clear that power is his abiding interest. And that has consequences. If America is only exceptional in its power — if our ideals aren't better, if our moral aspirations aren't even a tiny bit higher — then there are no real barriers to the use of that power.

If we're just another country, but with bigger and better guns, then we don't have to worry about our obligations to refugees, or apologize to countries where we've made mistakes, or even act like disenfranchising hundreds of thousands of minority voters matters all that much.

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