Strangely, Carl does not seem to give much credence to the idea that Americans are hard done by, at least not those in the Red States:
"Since the Red States are the locus of the most virulent strains of the obesity epidemic, it occurs to me it might be feasible to leverage this self-destructive gluttony by encouraging Red Staters to stuff themselves with as much artery-clogging, heart-stopping, mortality-accelerating saturated fat as possible. If as you suggest these tubby Jesus Freaks can be induced to actually consume one another, so much the better."
In fact, Carl has a bit of a thing about how fat Americans are:
"No wonder Americans are such porkers" he writes, and
"the sovereign wisdom of the U.S. electorate deems GWB the obvious choice to save their sorry sizable behinds."
When I suggested that there was nothing wrong with Americans' aspirations to better themselves, Carl snapped:
"there are indeed millions of go-getter, happy-as-clams Americans who think exactly like you? Come on over, grab some financing, fire up a bulldozer and start building."
And far from thinking that Americans were hard done by, he thought they were principle architects of their own difficulties:
"Yes, "Little Boxes" radiates contempt -- for the houses, the people who live in them, and the pointless conformist lives they lead."