Americans love winning to the extent that we cannot tolerate losing. Culturally, we are all but encouraged to cheat if we are ahead in order to maintain our lea

Americans love winning to the extent that we cannot tolerate losing. Culturally, we are all but encouraged to cheat if we are ahead in order to maintain our lead (we deserve to win), in the event of failure we point the blame at someone else (we would have won if not for those meddling kids!), and when even that doesn't stick we just ignore reality (actually we did win).