There is a sub-section of America that equates America with hypercapitalism. Unfortuately, this sub-section has the money and the power. The idea that more capitalism is best for everything including for-profit prisions (more people locked up equals more profilts), healthcare (more sick people having more unnecessary expensive procedures equals more profits), and education (charging ever increasing prices for a smaller and smaller slice of knowlege) is insane.
This sub-section of America is in denial that sometimes expanding captialism hurts more than it helps.