You guys will literally talk about how brainwashed liberals and millennials are, and then say and believe things like this. This is brainwashing 101 my friend. I’m guessing you were probably born in/near the baby boomer generation. A time when American “exceptionalism” was at/near its peak. That very message was conveyed in schools and throughout the media because it was needed if the U.S. was going to “win” the Cold War with the Soviets. American “exceptionalism” didn’t exist until WW2 ended, and the Cold War began.
Objectively, in the modern day, America simply is not the best overall country in the world. You can bring any kind of anecdotal evidence you want, or talk about the past to try and prove me wrong, but there is no objective metric that will agree with you. On an overall scale, America sits around ~10th in world ranking. Is that considered great? Absolutely. But it’s not objectively the best, and there are many things we could learn from other countries.
Going back to WW2 and how it relates to this pandemic. If you were a healthy American adult during WW2, odds are you were doing something to help the war effort. Whether that was fighting, manufacturing, farming, medical care, etc. Citizens rationed their food so enough could be sent overseas to feed the military. People in urban and suburban neighborhoods began to grow some of their own food so major farms could provide more to the military. Those citizens made legitimate sacrifices for the betterment of the country and the world. We’re asking modern citizens to wear a mask for 20 minutes in the grocery store and they act like toddlers. America, our citizens, and our leadership have been so ridiculous throughout this pandemic, that other countries have literally closed their borders to us.
