[NewRomeTacitus]

I would have Superman begin to question his allegiance to "the the American Way"

This is what the press has been trying to have us do for the last few decades, so it's no surprise that this fictional symbol of America has been demeaned in the publics collective imagination.

A few years ago a short run called "Red Son" had Kal-El land not in the U.S. but in Soviet-dominated Russia. That the buying public considered the idea a little too weird proves that, on the deepest level, most people still cherish the principles that they deride as "corny" to their friends.

[weegee]

The buying public may have considered it "too weird" but DC/Time/Life/Warner still has repackaged it and put it on shelves in a collected form. The Time article even mentions this alternate reality story.

[SoCal Pubbie]

I would have him question, just as a frustrated American might doubt with the news of the POW abuses right now, but in the end come out as The Man of Steel, with his faith renewed.

The point being that America is not perfect, just striving to be.