Yes because the we don’t do things like blow up other countries to “bring democracy”. We also don’t have anywhere near the highest rate of incarceration in the industrial world. We aren’t the only democratic nation that still has capital punishment and we believe that health care should be a universal right.

Not to mention we would never have the federal government sending a police force into cities that don’t want them.

The US is not exactly a “light on a shining hill”.

Fascinating way to look for deindustrialization. In this method, if China had some kind of super-SARS that killed everyone, then the US would have reindustrialized!