Opinion: The ugly, stupid, expensive, death of American Exceptionalism – And the dumb kids that never grew up.

US President Donald Trump hosted El Salvador’s leader Nayib Bukele at the White House in September – Copyright GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP/File WIN MCNAMEE

The definition of American exceptionalism is irritating enough. In its most basic form, it’s “superiority”. In the last 40 years, it’s become an obscenity.

From the richest, best educated, and most prosperous nation in history to a rest home for gibbering, insane billionaire ignoramuses, smug little criminals, and mass poverty hasn’t taken long.

It’s amazing how much of American social psychosis is at the purely infantile level. The ignorance is now endemic. Like in grade school, the dumb kids hate the smart kids. The dumb kids are the bullies. They have the social skills of a sewer. The dumb kids use up everyone’s time, money, and space. And so on.

American exceptionalism did have a basis. The Constitution is arguably one of the most advanced documents ever written as a statute. The pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness apparently hadn’t occurred to anyone before.

It was, and is, the lack of American enthusiasm for anyone else’s life, liberty, and happiness, particularly other Americans, that’s the problem.

The dumb kids clearly don’t know why anyone would want to be alive, free, and happy. As long as they have their gaudy, costly nothings and can pretend to be somebodies to other nobodies, they think they’re doing well. There are no other subjects but them. They don’t attempt to know much, if anything, about other things.

The American economy, particularly Main Street, where people live and pay too much for everything, is a reliable measure of American exceptionalism. Dumbness and lack of talent are embodied by devaluing wealth with price rises. It’s not “growth”. It’s shrinkage. American revenue systems can’t cope. This primitive, backward, unjust mess that doesn’t even have a VAT or other centralized revenue system and untold petty taxes has been grinding itself down for decades. You can hear the screams.

Costs pile up like haemorrhoids on a barely mobile, trapped domestic economy. You know that figure that US households can’t handle a hit of $400 in one month? It’s years old. That number comes from Pew, and it predates the Great Rental Gouge and years of health cost increases.

Dishonesty is the hallmark of the current US economy. Read any highly selective headline, and your chances of any clear picture of the economy are nonexistent. See headlines like “the wealthy are leading the US economy” and try to figure out how anyone else could. The middle class is long gone and largely forgotten. Nobody else has any money.

If you’re a millionaire, you’re well on the way to being one of the working poor. Exceptionalism starts at billionaire status.

The world is and can no longer be anything like impressed. The dumb kids didn’t know when to get off the merry-go-round, and it’s going nowhere at all. It hardly even goes round anymore.

You can’t invest in this insanity, and advisors are backing out of US investments for fundamental risk factors alone, not just the insanity. Currency is reflecting the genuine worries. The USD doesn’t need any more hits. If you own debt denominated in US dollars and the USD crashes, you could take a massive asteroid strike. Your debts would be huge, irrecoverable losses.

I must stress at this point that the implosion of America is in nobody’s best interests, however well deserved it’s become in the last year. It’ll be catastrophic globally.

The ugliness is everywhere. Crime, the usual career path of the dumb kids, is being its usual ignorant self at everyone else’s expense. Corruption is proving its stupidity by poisoning its own and everyone else’s future with incredibly bad moves.

“Exceptionalism”, you say?

No.

Poverty is not liberty.

Being hyper stressed is not happiness.

Nobody can afford to “pursue” anything.

Two and a half generations are staring down the barrel of 60 years of guaranteed extreme hardship.

Morons can’t fix this. It’s time the dumb kids were put out to pasture.