I'm sure that was a rhetorical question.
He sees something that everybody else in the world sees and has seen for decades: "why do these people walk around thinking they're better than everybody else simply for living
there instead of
here?"
The people who do stupid things like fancy accounting to "create" more money from nothing and investing in people who clearly are not worth the risk, are the same ones promoting the ideas that somehow one country is inherently better than others (incidentally, they don't do it only in the USA) because that keeps them in power; build up the dream until it's so nice that waking up seems like a nightmare, and then you can walk around emptying their wallets while they're asleep.
The people who could stop them, don't. Why? Because they want to believe it's true. The people at large want to think they're impervious to reality, bulletproof against consequences, able to do and say anything now without regard to t* = t + 1. Feeding the positive confirmation and hiding away the negation is that everybody else is doing the same. And they do this because they don't know how else to act, because it is what everybody else is doing...
And the result is that a growing number of the poulace everywhere simply don't care about anybody else, because they've been taught it's okay to do so.
It's not only the US, but the US has a much more noticeable effect simply because of the aberration period's aftermath (mass media, substantial economy, global influence, etc.). And similarly, a much greater obliviousness to the fact that being an asshole now has short-term payoffs, but long-term losses: everybody being not-an-asshole leads to payoffs for everybody at all terms.
Educating people to become critical and independent thinkers is by far the best solution to fix that, but the problem is that first you need people educated in critical and independent thinking. Breaking the cycle of stupidity will take a substantial effort by multiple different groups, and the problem is that those groups simply aren't taking the chance; many can't risk extending themselves and many simply prefer the status quo. Until they can be convinced of the greater danger -- one that threatens eerybody equally regardless of race, religion, nationality -- then it won't happen.
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