You sound as if you think grift is unique to the US. You are naive. But, for some reason, your angst and criticism is directed either exclusively or primarily towards the US. That would suggest a bias on your part.
It’s not bias.
I know there are bad people - and they’re distributed in all countries. But I also know somehow our country kept a lot of the bad people out of power. I’m sure there’s a ‘Hilter’ somewhere in the US, but our systems keep him working in shoe repair shop - not leading the country. We keep our evil people powerless.
How?
One of the beauties of the jury system and of our free elections is if there’s enough people looking at a situation, lots of times they make the right call on who’s good, who’s not, who’s guilty and who probably is innocent. We have a beautiful system.
But I also feel that the United States has traditionally been one of the most decent and honorable counties in the world. And yeah, I know Jefferson slept with his slaves, and that none of our people walk on water - but in spite of our humaneness we’ve pulled off a wonderful country. A beacon of light and freedom. So, lots of us take whoring down of our country personally. Corruption on the level we’ve seen it the last decade or two is a horror for a country as great as ours was. I don’t have that same expectation for China or Russia or Iran or the Republic of Congo. I hold us to a higher standard. How can you not feel the same?