There is no typical American. I'm 47 years old and I think I've heard a handful of people (who weren't politicians) do the old
"greatest country in the world". I have friends from Australia and Canada say the same thing about their own countries.
We have a DU'er here called "Thankfully in Britain" -- how is that not the same thing? Most of my friends struggle valiantly
for what they have, use weekends and odd hours to go out and protest/write letters/make phone calls or spend the little time
they have with their kids. Where are these typical Americans with willful ignorance or arrogance? I don't know them. The
ones I know are hurting. And the neocons have skillfully made most people blame the very people who are their primary victims
... the typical American.

One of the reasons this country is as terrified as it is, is we don't stand up for our own people. The morons on the far
right think cold-heartedness is some kind of call to patriotism. The people on the far-left seem to have no regard for the
very people who are suffering worst.

I have friends who should be getting chemo potentially living without it, I have family members struggling with mental health issues,
I have gay family and friends who must deal with institutionalized bias, and I could give you one example after another of the
"typical American" who is suffering.

I don't know how many people in other countries (and this one) who would normally have giving hearts to the poor...
after hearing about an Appalachian poverty outreach program (parts of my family came from the Appalachians) say,
"There aren't any really poor people in the US."

I guess they think they're just "typical Americans" complaining too much.