I have lived and I am from three different cultures. I have lived and experienced military dictatorships, utterly corrupt Latin American fake democracies and,

I have lived and I am from three different cultures. I have lived and experienced military dictatorships, utterly corrupt Latin American fake democracies and, yes, life in the US. I have traveled and done work in many countries around the world. I am not an expert, but, yeah, I am not an "ignorant American" as many like to paint anyone from the US. You still don't understand the key difference and I am not sure I can explain it well enough for you to internalize it. That piece of paper and the words on it mean a lot. They drive a massive legal system that takes that piece of paper and the words on it very seriously. And so, if a bad politician, from the President on down to a local city official, a law enforcement person or any inhabitant of the US for that matter, behaves in a way that violates those words, the legal system makes them pay the consequences of their actions. This does not mean that we are 100% infalible in this regard. Nobody is. There will be bad politicians, cops and people from time to time who will get away with misbehaving. That's just reality. However, in the US, for the most part, these laws are respected AND enforced. They mean something and, in particular, the Bill of Rights exists outside of government. They can't take away your freedom of speech or engage in unreasonable search and seizure, etc. without suffering devastating legal consequences. The only way this would not be so is if society as we know it in the US derailed to the point of anarchy. That is very far from reality. Impossible? Nothing is. Highly improbable? Absolutely. This isn't Venezuela. Yet.