There is the saying that "the leader is what the people deserves". But even if there are quite many things that I want to change in Americans, I think that the people are not as awfull. There is a long tradition in US that people believe that whatever USA does is the best in the world - this is a British heritage (as they say the same in EU even if they belong to the bottommost EU countries).

The problem is the US political system - complete lack of democracy. In presidential elections there are two options and both candidates should have blessing from the neocon hawks / military and oil industrial complex. If some candidate wants to get rid of this, he will be dead. Therefore, whoever will be elected, will be the one selected - exactly like in Soviet Union - the one supported by the shadow government. In Russia they have understood this and want to change the system - in USA people do not even understand theis own situation.