Funny side note. Gene Roddenbury wrote the Ferengi alien race into the Deep Space 9 series to be the bad guys. Ultra capitalists, which had some.. odd parrelels with judaism on top of the hyper capitsim. Women being unable to participate in business and being held as second class citiziens who werent allowed to wear clothes and were generally held as lesser is a good example. Sounds good on paper in the writing room, but they didnt catch on as bad guys in the US market and were moved to a comedy role, and new bad guys were introduced. Americans just couldnt see oppresive capitalists as villains. There was some pushback in the form of some groups calling the portrayal of Ferengi as an innately antisemitic construct, but no one ever said they were jewish or modeled after judaism, so thats awkward.
In a similar example, the writer of the Watchmen comic series wrote Rorschach to mock the fascist elements of American politics, and the character was intended to be mocked and pittied. American audiences adored Rorschach and he unexpectedly became the fan favorite and most discussed character by a fair margin. His black and white thinking and unwillingness to "sell out" no matter the cost --even when the cost was armageddon --came across as deeply principled .. to American audiences.
makes you wonder what the character of American people even is. We are fused with capitalism.