> I'm tired of my country increasingly acting like an empire of force when that goes against everything I was taught we should stand for. What surprises me eve

> I'm tired of my country increasingly acting like an empire of force when that goes against everything I was taught we should stand for. What surprises me everytime I interact with Americans is their naivety in their assumption that the leaders / politicians are any different or even better than those from any other country. Their belief that somehow these people who fight tremendous odds (almost certainly not ethically) to get to where they are, managed to do this while being true to any kind of moral compass. For that sort of thing to be true would necessitate that Americans be essentially different than other humans. IOW, I am surprised that Americans do not realise that the only difference between POTUS and Kim Jong Un or Saddam or... Is what they can reasonably get away with doing.