America's Rise Was Due to Implementing Collectivism Plus Market Economy, Not the Liberalism Plus Market Economy It Preaches
Yesterday I posted "Any rightist who simultaneously preaches liberalism and market economy is a two-faced scoundrel, and the same goes for the left in reverse," in which I already explained: "Liberalism and planned economy, collectivism and market economy—these two pairings correspond respectively to the non-uniformity and uniformity of the world, so that at least the logical premises are consistent." And America's rise was due to implementing the collectivism-plus-market-economy model, not the liberalism-plus-market-economy it preaches.
The collectivism-plus-market-economy model corresponds to the logical premise that the world has uniformity. In American society, this premise is clearly embodied in the secular uniformity of capital and the religious uniformity of God. Capital is the secular God, and believing in God is the capital for entering heaven. From this, it is not hard to understand the powerful Christian background of American society (the vast majority of the population being churchgoers, and the vast majority of political figures being of the faith), and this religious collectivism—far more powerful than ordinary secular so-called collectivism—constitutes the most solid foundation upon which America's market economy has flourished. Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism develops this to a certain extent, but the vision is still not broad enough.
Of course, American collectivism is not manifested solely in religion; it is in fact fully reflected in every corner of its society. My post from a few days ago, "The Kangxi-Qianlong era's strength lay in literary inquisition, while America's strength lies in advancing literary inquisition with the times," provided a very condensed description of this American collectivism—that is, the advanced form of literary inquisition. Of course, this topic of America's collectivism-plus-market-economy model is an enormous subject, enough to fill a large book, so I won't elaborate here.
For better understanding, I'll append below the two previously posted articles mentioned above. Through them, the logical relationship should be easy to grasp.