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US self-entitlement.
the land of the free has always had a “more important than every other country” mindset which has infected their citizens with the same selfish mindset.
McCarthyism and subsequent witch-hunts have resulted in such an anti-socialist zeitgeist that it has morphed into an anti-social zeitgeist where any empathy for any other person is seen not only as a weakness, but as also being “Un-murikan”.