If more Americans knew what the hell you are talking about (and cared to), then perhaps I may not despise America as I do.

Since you allude to Jefferson, you may observe that Jefferson’s notion of a “natural aristocracy” was in essence an attempt to synthesize his own rationally aristocratic mentality with the “Enlightenment” ideals which he believed with a religious fervour.  The resulting vision of a State ruled by an educated middle class was what must surely be one of the most elegant populist theories ever imagined.  Too bad that it did not survive contact with reality.

I hold several of the American founders in the highest respect—both Federalists such as Washington and John Adams (plus Adams’ famous scholarly great-grandsons; read their stuff!), and Antifederalists such as Jefferson, Samuel Adams, et al.  I detest Americans all the more for betraying the gift bought with blood and honour by men greater than themselves, and bequeathed to them with a foolish generosity:  Freedom given freely, and discarded cheaply!

If my favourite American founders could see their country today, they would probably panic and beg the King to take them back.  Nowadays, the individual Americans whom I most respect are the ones who finally realize that the same patriotic principles which make them love what America could have been, must make them hate what America is.

(By the way, from your apparent lack of fatheadedness, I assume that you are probably not fat.  That itself makes you a dissident. ;-)