OK, are we living on the same planet? You appear to be talking about some Bizarro World, not Earth. The New World? America has always been a violent nation, from our founding genocide to the slave labor that built the country to the arsenal, unprecedented in human history, that maintains our empire. We spend $60 billion a year on pets but won't go to any inconvenience to keep second graders from getting slaughtered. Despite all our competitive parenting and mommy machismo and trophy kids, we don't really give a damn about our children - by which I mean, about one another's. When a race stops caring for its young, its extinction is not only imminent but well deserved.

Again, and yet again, the United States is in a state of arrested development having never matured past the emotional maturity of a seven year-old. The shortsighted, religious based values of this country, starting with its inception, have created a rapidly devolving culture of ignorance and self-hating, self-destruction.

America was exceptional since the very inception, all throughout genociding the America's aboriginals out of existence; through rounding the America's Japanese up into the concentration camps; through advocating euthanasia and funding NSDAP; through centuries of slavery and racial segregation; through countless foreign invasions and instigations of bloodbaths all across the world.