You make a lot of good points.  To let you into my perspective...Regardless of some of America's corrupt beginnings and the underworld of sick, controlling psychopaths,  I think a lot of us enjoy America for what we know it to be...because we have experienced and enjoyed freedom, opportunity, liberty and safety...taking those blessings as far as we want to take them by our own choices. So, we want those maintained.  It looks like we are having to wake each other up with links to documents, under-oath testimonies, court cases, company bios, etc, so we can have a fighting chance to keep America at least as wonderful as we have experienced so far.  Although America has been in the grasp of those using us and our efforts for their own gain, we still had a great nation in which to thrive...and are fighting now to keep at least that, if not to root out the corruption, too.