Some say it’s natural optimism that makes the Americans so different from the British, and some say it’s a lack of cynicism. Either way, our cousins over there have long had difficulty distinguishing fact from fiction, and are forever finding ways to make their public life look like the action movie that always ends well for the hero, or the TV series in which some of the good guys turn out to be bad but the really good guy lives to fight another season.
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