IIN to hate Americans who think their country is the absolute best?

I'm glad you finished on a positive note. I'm not American but I think America has a lot to be proud of. I also think America is criticised unfairly. I come from a country that went after empire like a rat on a corpse. You could praise that for its transparency or you could denigrate it for its crudeness. I'd denigrate it. America isn't quite so transparent (it's not allowed to be) but America doesn't do anything that any other superpower hasn't tried.

My country didn't admit to some of the naughty tricks for a century or two. Such is the nature of primacy. With one exception (which I'll keep out of this discussion), I think America as a nation hasn't behaved too badly. I could argue that there's an attempt to destroy business world-wide and replace it with American business, but that's capitalism. If you're no good at playing dirty tricks, you lose. I'm sure that would be the American view. Why should losers thrive? If you think of it in Darwinist terms, it's difficult to fault. Although I do believe the opposite as well and that we should support each other.