To me, as an English person looking at America through the prism of the news, and articles such as this, it looks more and more like the American state is a rog

To me, as an English person looking at America through the prism of the news, and articles such as this, it looks more and more like the American state is a rogue element beset by paranoia, increasingly lacking trust not only in the world at large, but also in its own citizens. Do any of you American citizens out there have the same opinion of your government?