Source: The UnPopulist
by Shikha Dalmia
“The beauty of this 249-year-old experiment is that it delivered living standards unprecedented in human history — not by sacrificing moral progress but making it central to America’s success. America rejected the old world’s zero-sum economic model of territorial conquest, mercantilism, and colonialism and replaced it with free and open commerce based on mutual benefit. Slavery is this country’s original sin and much work remains for true racial justice. Still, America’s success came from flattening hierarchies, ending exploitation, harnessing human potential, and offering opportunity regardless of caste, creed, religion, or color. America’s genius is not that it draws the best people but that it draws the best out of people. Even the world’s ‘wretched’ manage to make something of themselves here. But we are getting a first-hand taste of what happens when liberal democracy starts to collapse.” (08/14/25)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/liberals-need-moral-clarity-not-moral