when put in combination:
1. we have the highest rate of incarceration in the Western industrialized world
2. we have the highest rate of execution in the Western industrialized world
3. we have the highest rate of murder in the Western industrialized world
4. we have perhaps the greatest economic disparity in the Western industrialized world
5. we have the lowest rate of medical insurance in the Western industrialized world
It seems to me that our American exceptionalism should be a matter of embarrassment if not outright shame, and not something about which we brag