I was trying to think of an argument to disagree with you with but you're right. From the times of Woodrow Wilson's reign to John Edgar Hoover and Nixon to the

I was trying to think of an argument to disagree with you with but you're right. From the times of Woodrow Wilson's reign to John Edgar Hoover and Nixon to the NSA, there's never really been a time in the past hundred years some part of the government wasn't corrupt and power hungry. And probably even before 1900 too with slavery and subduing of the Indian tribes. The freest least corrupt point in USA government's history is probably July 2, 1776.