Do you know who said this?
The concepts underlying "Americanism" do not include ignorance and selfishness. Our Great leaders right from the very start have emphasized the importance of sacrifice and community service, including the obligations of those who are fortunate, for their service to exceed that of others not so blessed. Surely nobody really believes that avarice and indifference to the plight of others are positive attributes of a free people? It is more likely that such beliefs are a fig-leaf for awful people to disguise their own disgrace to their own satisfaction, if not to anybody else's.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
