@triodug @matrix @Moon They get a feeling of being superior to other white people by holding the beliefs they do. This feeling is often more important than life itself they would rather die than think of themselves as equal to an ordinary American. Listening to the Jim Jones tapes it is repeated over and over again just how superior they are compared to the people they left behind and this is as they are preparing to commit mass suicide.

Sometimes I use American as compliment with lefty types just to see them recoil at though of being a "fine American".