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Our country might be as wicked and evil as everyone wants us to believe<\/a>.\u00a0I posted on this very study here<\/a>.\u00a0 I fondly remember a Nigerian minister who once puzzled over why Americans are so brutal to our own nation: \u201cIt\u2019s as if you want America to be worse than it was.\u201d\u00a0 I\u2019ve never forgotten that observation.\u00a0\u00a0That matches a talk I had with a priest from Nigeria a couple years ago, as he explained just how rough and brutal much of the world is compared to America and the West.\u00a0 I know, we love to hash and trash the US.\u00a0 Liberalism is built upon it.\u00a0 But every now and then, you hear a story or read a study that suggests all those evils we focus on exclusively might just be the exception, rather than the rule.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"