http://www.nytimes.com/...
E L Doctorow gives a handy primer on how to create an unexceptional America.
I didn't see this mentioned elsewhere here, and I saw no open thread, so I thought I'd pass it along.
It begins like this:
TO achieve unexceptionalism, the political ideal that would render the United States indistinguishable from the impoverished, traditionally undemocratic, brutal or catatonic countries of the world, do the following...
Enjoy.