I don't see it as a "USA is bad" post. Quite the opposite. It's a validation of what this country was founded upon. American exceptionalism isn't that people h

I don't see it as a "USA is bad" post. Quite the opposite. It's a validation of what this country was founded upon. American exceptionalism isn't that people here are incorruptible. It's that we decided wherever possible to avoid creating positions of power and influence. Precisely because it's assumed that those positions will be abused. Making sure that there are explicit limits when those positions are necessary. The fact that we've seen this behavior "even here" should make people realize how right the founding fathers were about the nature of power and governance. Even the idea of having a national standing army was considered risky back in the day.