Sorry to disappoint you
Mr. Greenwood, but there have been many times in my life when I was less than proud to be an American.
Let's look at the top three on the list – in reverse order:
3) Henry Kissinger accepts the Noble Peace Prize for negotiating a cease fire in the Viet Nam war after having prolonged said war for years, resulting in the unnecessary deaths of thousands of American soldiers, and hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese.
2) George W. Bush, after the tragedy of 9/11, uses anti-Muslim sentiment to justify a war against an undersupplied and ill-trained Iraqi Army, one that cost trillions of American dollars and thousands of innocent lives, and that left the Middle East in shambles.
1) That brings us to now. Pundits will be arguing for weeks about what did or did not go right for the Harris campaign, and how or if Joe Biden's refusal to adhere to his original suggestion that he would be a one term "transitional" President affected her chances. In the end, however, all we can do is look to the majority of Americans who voted for someone morally unfit to hold this or any other office and ask, "Why?".
The best answer I can offer comes from the mouths of two American cultural icons.
First, two quotes from the late H.L. Mencken, columnist with the Baltimore Sun:
"No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public."
"On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
And lastly, from the late P.T. Barnum:
"There's a sucker born every minute."