 There's also in the United States very little residue of earlier European structures or an authentic conservative tradition. We don't really have conservatives in the United States. There are people who call themselves conservatives, but they're mostly radical statists who combine support for an extremely powerful, intrusive state with coercive social norms, something that a genuine conservative would certainly wince at. The lack of a conservative tradition in the United States maybe, in fact, probably is part of the reason for the weakness, the relative weakness of the social contract and of support systems by comparative standards. These typically had their roots in pre-capitalist institutions, and they don't exist much here. They didn't have them.