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Because the left could never measure up to the lofty goals that come with being that kind of American, it was far too hard to try and fail and accept their place in society.

...despite its struggles over integration and its Cold War fears and tensions, America was a thriving, powerful, exuberant, virile, blooming nation in the 1950's and '60's; and young Americans - the brooding Hamlets among them - were haunted by their fathers' monumental achievements in making it so. And the sullen, swaggering Iagos among them felt stifled, and jealous of what their fathers had done without their help in the Second World War, those fathers had beaten out the very fires of hell. No feat could stand beside that without seeming small, and who would ever admire them as their fathers had been admired?...From America-Lite by David Gelernter - a good read.....