An interesting point of view from one I would assume inside America?

To be clear the first auto mobile was made by Carl Benz seven years before anything was copied in the United States. Underground railway was in London 34 years before being copied in the United States and as for feats of bridge construction - Asia is thousands of years in advance of America. I have walked over amazing wooden or stone structures built a thousand years ago.

Democracy? Surely you are not implying that democracy was born in any infantile form in the political puppy that is the United States. Romans? Magna Carta in 1215?

The system of mass production and assembly lines which give way to a form of abusive labor is older than scripture itself.

The United States is merely a bead in the rosary that is evolution, not the launching point of modern man.

I believe you are right in saying that the US system is faulty and badly in need of reform.

However it is not merely the system it is the hubris upon which it is built that needs reassessment.

Pride in achievement is a worthy attribute but obsessive self-grandeur is a seeping virus of the soul. A belief in infallability and God-given superiority is a sickness unparallelled.

I drink in taverns that are older than the US.

The United States which is a highly respected country encompassing a broad spectrum of humanity must look to itself first before assuming any grand status.

Nations and peoples around the globe must also turn to the mirror of humility before assuming the grandeur of sublime leadership