The article I decided to read was over our beloved country, USA, and the clashing views of how America is exceptional between conservatives and liberals. According to a journalist from CNN, conservatives believe that every country should look up to America as a role model due to our economic status. Moreover, conservatives view our country’s morals and culture superior to other countries; therefore, other countries should accept us and submit to our way of living. Basically, conservatives sees America as the top dog and we are the best the world has ever had; even though they don’t even like our government. As for liberals, they think we are exceptional because of our limited government and constitution. Furthermore, liberals think we should adopt some aspects of foreign countries, well in exchange that they adopt ours, and form a bond.
In the article, it also mentioned both conservatives and liberals’ views towards President Barrack Obama. Conservatives apparently believe that President Obama does not believe our country is exceptional nor is he making it that way. On the other hand, liberals believe he is, and this should sound familiar if you replace conservatives with Republicans and liberals with Democrats. Anyways, Democrats or liberals also believe that we should try to have a tighter bond with the United Nations (UN), such as having the UN decide if the US could use military power to settle something. I personally, like the liberals since I’m a Democrat; however, some of their views I do not like like the permission from the UN, if we are so great why do we need to have permission from others, isn’t that contradictory? I do like the idea of spreading our ideas to other countries, but I would like to have them adapt voluntarily not by coercing them. It’s just unethical to force lesser countries to be like us when they might not want to change.