Is this the old "we can't do this because we're too big/diverse/awesome" bogus argument? Every time it's pointed out that Europe is a much better place for the

Is this the old "we can't do this because we're too big/diverse/awesome" bogus argument? Every time it's pointed out that Europe is a much better place for the middle class than America, you get all conservatives and/or all libertarians up in arms making up excuses for why America is supposedly unable to replicate that for various reasons. With that can't do attitude, of course it's a self-fulfilling prophecy.