I have to disagree. Complacancy is not uniquely American. The Germans didn't believe in the existance of death camps, either. The marquee over Aushwitz said "Work shall make you free". And Americans, to a large degree, think the same thing, even though our prisons are one of our few domestic growth industries anymore.
But it's nearly uniquely American for a certain segment of the population to walk free, enjoying all the rights and priviledges of any American citizen while speaking, writing, demonstrating and investing themselves in countless other ways in dissent from those activities that we think our government really shouldn't be involved in (unless to protect us from those who are)
America's great. The Federal government's caught a bad case of socialism just lately. But America will come out the other end with the most important parts intact. I'm fairly certain of it.
Necessity never made a good bargain
--Benjamin Franklin Apr. 1734