No. The average human (there is nothing special, good or bad, about Americans) is generous, provided they understand the circumstances.
The rule is 271. 20% of people are wonderful, approaching sainthood. 70% are good, particularly in a crisis. 10% are garbage.
What we've been seeing during this is the 10% have dominated the news, and a portion of the 70% have been hoodwinked by them. There are bad people but most bad is done by good people in ignorance.
While I think a vast majority of people are good, too- I also think there's a significant portion of this country who just don't want to think for themselves. So when told that this isn't a big deal, or that mask are a bad thing, or we are being fed a lie- in spite of the data generated by largely conservative governments, etc- they just take in what they are told.
In many cases, all of us are that way- we don't have the time or patience to actually look into a story, and if it agrees with what we believe, then.... I admit to that reaction more than once here. But I do look into the data, and see the real trends, too- this not from media sources, but the health departments.
Driving across rural Michigan yesterday, I saw plenty of support for dumpy and his crew- with no thanks to our D governor who pretty much stopped a HUGE outbreak in it's tracks. These people just don't want to bother to think on their own. That's their core fault. Remember, these are the poor people who are more than willing to ruin their kids education so that people who are many orders of magnitude richer can have a tax break. This is a common problem in the state of Michigan- and I have no idea why they are so happy to cut off their noses to spite their face.
And now that this whole thing has turned into an us vs. them thing, logic and reason will never turn them over. Ever. Sad but true. The only think that may change them is if their leaders change their output. Which seems to be happening- but it will be interesting to see the reaction when dumpy gets mad that he's being told that he's wrong.
People like jeb just don't want to be proven wrong. It's never happened once on this board- the more this gets deeper, the harder the shoveling has gotten to bury themselves. People are curious.
