You are wrong, our government is still set up that way. Just because most people take advantage of the system, does not make it a different government. Why are you concerned anyway? Shouldn’t you be spending your energy trying to get your countnry back? Do you guys have any rights left over there at all? No freedom of speech and crappy health care would make me a angry too, but I would not be wasting my time on a foreign website arguing with people.
What is the point of a theoretical government? So it was set up to work one way, but actually works another. How therefore, can it be any better? It doesnt matter what it was set up for...many things are set up to do one thing, but actually work like another. The Roman Empire for example. Of course most people take advantage of the system. What else would you expect to happen?
I’m concerned because I see kindly Western systems (US, UK, Swedish, French..who cares), often Church inpsired, set up to support the common good, being abused by crooks and swindlers and idlers. Doesn’t that make you mad?
And incidentally, I doubt very much, for all your boasting, that Americans have much more practical freedom than we do.