Here are a few ideas many Americans profoundly believe in:
- Greed is good.
- Wealth trickles down from the rich to the poor.
- Being rich is a sign of virtue.
- Poor people have themselves to blame.
- Gun ownership reduces crime.
- The market is always right.
- The US is a democracy.
- Ronald Reagan was the Greatest American of all time.
- God created the world in six days, so He is pretty powerful.
- The very same God protects America.
- We are the good guys, they are the bad guys, and they could also be: you.
This book contains some impressions of the author (who lived in New York City from 1999-2004) and is about American history, the constitution, politics, war, money, religion, violence, values, presidents, generals, crooks, beggars, and preachers; in other words about what makes America tick.
Willem de Vries (1942) is a geographer and worked in statistics most of his career. He lives in Amsterdam - The Netherlands.
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