Between Americans by Norman Corwin
I notice the propagandists for the so-called left and especially the professional America-haters seem to have one overwhelming goal: to demoralize Americans, particularly the average Jill or Joe, to belittle them and their history, make them feel guilty for enjoying their lives, call them mutts living in a fake country, deride the things they like such as rock and country music, custom cars and football, bass boats and motorcycles, air shows, westerns and war movies, stock car racing, bosomy babes in bikinis, jet skis and snowmobiles, water skiing, hunting and
fishing, Warner Brothers cartoons, Disneyland,
grocery store beer, Coke and Pepsi, moon pies, BLTs and curly fries, root-beer floats, buckwheat cakes with maple syrup, cheeseburgers and potato chips, chili cheese hotdogs, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with Fritos, steak with mushrooms and a baked potato with sour cream, onion rings and garlic french fries, barbecuing chicken in the
backyard, trips to Dairy Queen or McDonald's with the kids, Christmas,
pride in their armed forces, their history, their religion--especially anything that
mentions Jesus or the Bible. I don't understand why this is so, other than that I have
noticed
that the lower ranks of such people (I don't know any upper-rankers),
seem to have serious emotional issues. They tend to be failures in
their personal and professional lives, often drug and alcohol abusers,
unable to grow-up emotionally, self-centered, childless, and not very
well educated and not all that smart, these latter evident in their
intellectual incuriosity and ignorance of the subjects they attack. 
If you try to correct their factual errors or engage them in a debate, they are at first supercilious, confident they know more and are smarter than you; after all, if you weren't so ignorant and stupid, you would agree with them. Then they become angry, lose their tempers, call you names. There are so many examples of such people blaming Americans for historical crimes, often ones never actually committed, while giving a pass to other nationalities for doing vastly worse, often as deliberate policy, things that have been well documented.
I think those who misrepresent and outright lie about us may often be selected and promoted as useful tools by those with a much larger agenda and world view,
one in which a powerful middle-class country full of people who think
for themselves, can manage their own lives, don't need much in the way of government and are not impressed by
self-described "elites" or credentials or fancy degrees, is a threat
that must be eliminated. 
They
become a type of affirmative action hire, granted impressive-sounding
academic degrees, promoted to vanity positions in media and government,
have their "scientific" papers lauded, get their embarrassing drivel
published in prestige newspapers and magazines, even have their books
published by mainstream presses -- all as long as they parrot the party
line. When they no longer do, they are discarded, their lives and efforts derided and discredited -- a fate they never seem to see coming.
The unfortunate thing to me is that when it comes to US foreign
policy as well as any number of domestic policy issues, many of us ordinary Americans would agree with these
America haters that things have gone badly wrong, terrible mistakes have been made and the direction the country is headed is catastrophic. We would also acknowledge that American history is far from free of tragedy. But they are so focused on feeling
superior to us and attacking us for simply existing as a people that
they don't realize that. I don't think they want to realize it. What
they want is an enemy, and the smart people manipulating them have made us
their designated enemies and they never question why.
