I think it generalizes to Americans being uncomfortable with anything they perceive as ideology. The propaganda just serves that. Lyndon Johnson would have "go

I think it generalizes to Americans being uncomfortable with anything they perceive as ideology. The propaganda just serves that. Lyndon Johnson would have "gotten away with" The Great Society had he not also been forced to deal with Vietnam. Regardless of what we in the US say of that, those programs are very much part of our ...portfolio. At an ethical level, Americans are much more likely to embrace consumer surplus as a core value, hence the emphasis on work rather than on government. Our "conservatism" when it is coherent is really a more-radical Liberalism in the sense of an emphasis on a self-reliant individual.