The Unexceptional American

In the midst of a global pandemic millions of like-minded Americans uncritically believe they are possessors of secret Covid knowledge that they use to both justify their refusal to get vaccinated and give them rationale to harness those who are intelligently vaccinated.

In the dust of the most recent semi-failed insurrection, millions of Americans continue longing and working to undermine local, state, and the federal government by promoting the (stupid) “Big Lie” that the President and Vice President who received the most votes ever, did not *actually win.

In the aftermath of a disastrous twenty-year misguided war in Afghanistan that most Americans cared little about and most beltway pundits ignored, citizens and media alike believe “they” have the solutions long missing from multiple administrations and military experts both here and abroad.

And in the drainage of failed government control of women, a handful of Christian radicals in Texas, led by the intelligence-deficient governor Greg A-Butt, decided they own all decisions that should be exclusively between women/girls and their medical provider.

America and Americans are spoon-fed the fantasy of individual exceptionalism from birth, through pre-school, up through k-12 and, if one continues, all the way through college and graduate school.