> The situation we find ourselves in is that the American of today does not represent us well.

The thing the person you're replying to points out is that, while you may be earnest in your comment and representative of a majority of US citizen, that is not how the US as a country has worked for a very long time, and it was possible because you and your fellow citizen were either too ignorant or not involved enough.

I'll simply point to the history of Central and South America as evidence of my claim.