How does ideology influence American identity?

Liberal ideology had a clear influence on American identity. Thus, America became the Land of the Free in the collective imagination, given that the liberalism defended by the Founding Fathers established a country with freedom as the main right of citizenship.

Thus, American citizens, to this day, are fervent defenders of civil, political, and economic liberties; opponents of all forms of oppression or limitation of rights; and seekers of opportunities for advancement through the exercise of said freedoms.

he believed that congress would be better not dealing with "lobbyists", or people who seek to influence (a politician or public official) on an issue, since historically, they had problems with these kinds of people. he thought lobbying produces benefits, but should be carefully monitored.

in his book, the riddle of the rosetta stone, james giblin talks about how there was a young british polymath and physician named thomas young who made a lot of advances on the deciphering of the rosetta stone. he says that even though young made a lot of mistakes because he was working under false assumptions, he also made huge contributions like deciphering three out of the seven symbols (more than anyone else before him). young published his findings and continued his good work but he wasn't able to progress much further due to some unfavorable situations, he still laid the basis for many other scholars and of course for the man who has been generally known to have deciphered it, jean-françois champollion