It was a strange realization growing up in America that at some point American Exceptionalism had begun to mean learned helplessness. I'm told repeatedly that t

It was a strange realization growing up in America that at some point American Exceptionalism had begun to mean learned helplessness. I'm told repeatedly that those factors are unsolvable problems of humanity and there is nothing the government can do to ameliorate them. As you say, the evidence of the other countries would seem to contradict this, yet that never seems to matter.