This is painful to watch. All I can say that these people are deluded and uninformed.

They only see what they want to see. And what do they want to see: the American Dream in action.

And what is the American Dream? We are #1! We are the chosen people (by the Lord)! And everybody can make it to the top (even idiots)!

Especially the last point of the American Delusion is the most important one. Modern American equality means that everybody is equally “low” - there is no more room for variety and differences. Brilliant people are immediately disliked and not “one of us”. The American voter insists on these “small town values” and a tight mental consensus. That is why they wanted a President they can have a beer with. And that is why they go for grandpa and the hockey mom, because they seem friendly, cuddly and very close to their own human potential.

People like Obama, John Kerry or Howard Dean seem too different, to challenging and alien to them.

Those old progressive Americans - the so called Founding Fathers - would scare these modern “real Americans” to death. The Founding Fathers where not “real” Christians, damn liberals and had tons of new ideas that were far ahead of their times mental and social consensus.