This is a profound insight that I've never heard before. Thanks.

…ere building exactly all these systems of public goods, for everyone, America wasn’t. It couldn’t — it was a segregated society until 1971, which meant that it was institutionally impossible to build, for example, a public healthcare system, or any of the many public goods Europeans and Canadians take for granted today.
Why The Real Test of American Exceptionalism is Now
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This is a profound insight that I've never heard before. Thanks.
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