In the end, however, as in the beginning, I am an individualist. It's more than just an ideological stance, it's the way I look at the world. I began to feel better when I realized that there are -- and always have been -- two separate and distinct Americas: my America, the America of Thomas Paine, the Declaration of Independence, and the Bill of Rights; and another America, the America of Alexander Hamilton and his rapacious, bloodthirsty, cannibalistic descendants to whom power is more important than money or sex or food or any moral, ethical, or legal principle ever known to humankind, and who will do anything -- absolutely anything -- to obtain, enhance, and consolidate it. "Anarchist" is probably a better word to describe Neil, along with "ideologue" and maybe "adolescent." "Manichean" is another good epithet.
There are more than "two Americas." Or maybe there are fewer. But in any case they are not so "separate and distinct" as he makes them out to be.
It's a little hard to recognize Alexander Hamilton as a cannibalistic Vampire. Maybe he's thinking of George Hamilton in "Love at First Bite."
Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison and most of the rest of us fall between these two caricatured extremes.
But if it makes Neil "feel better" I suppose he'll go on thinking as he does.