Labor Day: American Exceptionalism

In his 1 September 2025 American Thinker article, Scott S. Powell observes that Labor Day is Really All About American Exceptionalism. He writes:

... Properly understood, it is the holiday that celebrates not only labor, but the job creators and entrepreneurs central to the flourishing of the United States and its people.

Colonial America certainly benefited from the fact that early settlers were a self-selecting risk-takers willing to cross a dangerous ocean and start life over in the new world. Because they were tough, willing to sacrifice and bear risk, these settlers were predisposed to work hard and forgo immediate gratification...

Alexis de Tocqueville’s ever-relevant classic, Democracy in America (1840) -- points out that in contrast to Europeans, Americans regard work as “positively honorable.”...

The central struggle throughout the ages has been between freedom and tyranny. Even before Marx wrote The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital, Tocqueville asserted, “Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.” He added, “You can’t have it both ways. Socialism is a new form of slavery.”..

What is also exceptional is the fact that the United States has had one constitution for 235 years..