That's a very simplistic, even confused, comment on the thrust of what I said, but if it makes you happy...
and presented no moral framework for America.
'America'? You mean as a framework for our republican form of government? Right on. It didn't.
Just a quick question: whose depictions of history do you read?
No doubt the same ones you read, spinner, - although we obviously arrive at different conclusions from the same info.
I'd suggest you look into your:
"excessive capacity and urge to become identified with a tribe, nation, church or cause, and to espouse its credo uncritically and enthusiastically, even if its tenets are contrary to reason, devoid of self-interest and detrimental to the claims of self-preservation."
-Koestler-