Americans expect the government to be corrupt and bad because history shows that government to be corrupt and bad. We don't get it because we expect it. We get

Americans expect the government to be corrupt and bad because history shows that government to be corrupt and bad. We don't get it because we expect it. We get it because history repeats. Which is why we setup ours to be limited in power and why, as time goes on and that power expands, it gets worse and worse and why stuff like POTUS elections are now life and death when they used to be largely figure heads.