I'm with you on a lot of this, but you might want to think about how circular this statement is: "until American's realize we aren't exceptional because we are

I'm with you on a lot of this, but you might want to think about how circular this statement is: "until American's realize we aren't exceptional because we are American, but because our forefathers lived out American values" and then read a lot more American history before it gets deleted. What's troubling to me is that we can't easily own our history, even while we are asserting the necessity to stay grounded in reality.