{"id":5472,"date":"2024-03-29T18:02:11","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T18:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/?p=5472"},"modified":"2024-03-29T18:03:12","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T18:03:12","slug":"the-insurrection-and-its-discontents-american-exceptionalism-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/?p=5472","title":{"rendered":"The Insurrection and Its Discontents: American Exceptionalism Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Author:<\/b>\u00a0Ramzy Baroud\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Affiliation<\/b>:\u00a0Independent Journalist and Palestinian Historian\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Organization\/Publisher<\/b>:\u00a0Politics Today\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Date\/Place<\/b>:\u00a0January\u00a018, 2021\/USA<\/span><\/p>

Type of Literature<\/b>:\u00a0Opinion\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Word Count<\/b>: 1000\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Link<\/b>:\u00a0<\/span>https:\/\/politicstoday.org\/the-insurrection-and-its-discontents-american-exceptionalism-revisited\/<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Keywords<\/b>:\u00a0<\/span>America, Trump, Democracy, Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>

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With the storming of Capitol Hill on 6<\/span>th<\/span>\u00a0January, it seemed as if American democracy had been upended and commentators understood it as the final nail in the coffin driven by the presidency of\u00a0Donald Trump. However, the author argues that it exposed\u00a0already-existing cracks in the American system\u00a0and\u00a0that political affiliations of people have not really changed.\u00a0Quoting Noam Chomsky, he explains that America is in fact a plutocracy\u00a0with certain platforms to express dissent in order to provide an illusion of democracy. This has also left opposite ends of the political spectrum to follow different political realities and find great difficulty in trusting one another. Both\u00a0claim to be champions of democracy, yet their visions are starkly different.\u00a0The elites used to rally both sides under the guise of \u2018American exceptionalism\u2019 where it was exempt from democratic standards when intervening and invading foreign lands, but\u00a0that is changing. The public deeply distrusts the elite and the media.\u00a0From the \u2018Manifest Destiny\u2019 doctrine to invading Iraq under false pretext, US Presidents were able to garner support from both sides of the political spectrum. That link seems to have broken now as\u00a0the public is skeptical of the state. This gives the US a window to\u00a0strengthen its democracy and discard old ways of manufacturing consent. It also serves to devalue the false\u00a0exceptionalism the US has been awarded and which it has abused since it became a superpower.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

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By:<\/b> Sahar Sadiq, CIGA Research Intern<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Author:\u00a0Ramzy Baroud\u00a0 Affiliation:\u00a0Independent Journalist and Palestinian Historian\u00a0 Organization\/Publisher:\u00a0Politics Today\u00a0 Date\/Place:\u00a0January\u00a018, 2021\/USA Type of Literature:\u00a0Opinion\u00a0 Word Count: 1000\u00a0 Link:\u00a0https:\/\/politicstoday.org\/the-insurrection-and-its-discontents-american-exceptionalism-revisited\/\u00a0 Keywords:\u00a0America, Trump, Democracy, Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent\u00a0 \u00a0 Brief: \u00a0 With the storming of Capitol Hill on 6th\u00a0January, it seemed as if American democracy had been upended and commentators understood it as the final nail in the coffin 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