This is about conservatives, but I don't see how you can't apply it to Americans in general -
"... the suffering of others is a tool... that everyone else in the world is a threat or an obstacle or something to wad up and throw away; that even the most abstracted inconveniencing of their own... comfort is tantamount to the end of the world. A cohort of the most fearful and most credulous and most idly vicious people... ever produced... and whose only real faith is in their own... blamelessness"