What makes america great? That debate has been more heated than usual because of the volatile election results of 2010 (and 2008), Tea Partiers, the recession, and the financial crisis. But it's heating up for another reason as well-a spreading realization that the widely held current answer to the question no longer makes sense. The conventional case for U.S. greatness has long rested on our economic success, and understandably so. We're the world's richest nation by far, where the ordinary citizen achieves a living standard unrivaled in any other country of significant size.
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