Just how corrupt Is America, anyway?

But to me, what compounds any answer to that -- is our infinite capacity for sanctimony (combined with Denial.)
All made possible / inevitable? via our Puritan roots. When you *Just KNOW* that $deity is On Your Side: how could there be any need for improvement? So lets 'conserve' it just the way it is, I say. (Popular slogan, that.)

Can we start-over? Hmmm.. is there a choice. Now?