There's a lot of erroneous information that is integral to American mythology, buried so deeply that extracting it will feel to a lot of folks like an appendectomy performed with a fork and butter knife. Fortunately for most of out pundits, most people are as unaware of the mythic nature of our civic religion as they are.
I'm actually working on a posting describing parts of the American Mythology. It's reassuring to have synchronicity with smart, aware people.