I’ll go. I’m still proud of every American who has held in there through these 8 years and not given up on turning things around. We know what it is to live free and despite all the obstacles ahead there is still places that you can experience it.

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    My hobby is genealogy. Almost every generation seems to have someone in the family that endured significant hardship but made it through. The most recent one I found was a young child burned to death in a barn fire. Others are kids orphaned by flu or other illness. I always find that one person that could have quit - but didn’t. Americans seem to have a recessive resilient gene. It comes out only at dire need. This can give us great hope these days.

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      I’m sorry but this is humanity, survivorship bias and American exceptionalism all rolled up into one. You are living on planet ‘only americans are special’ and it’s properly crazy. Please educate yourself about the resiliance of people in every other nation on Earth. You’ll find there is precisely nothing american about it.