Along with millions of working Americans, they are paragons of personal responsibility, not Romney's caricature of self-pitying victims seeking to live off government benefits.
It would also mean reinventing the way we run organizations, built not on the sole basis of self-regarding profit-seeking motives, but rather organizations that are focused on providing thick value and delighting their customers.
Even John Howard, the prime minister and a staunch monarchist, grudgingly admits that having a head of state who lives in another country does not quite fit Australia's self-image as a modern democracy, seeking to establish a new role for itself in the Asia-Pacific region.