Americans believe themselves to be exceptional - falsely so. As a rule we are individually intelligent but as a group we are dumb as rocks. Even the definition of our type of government is misunderstood by the whole.
America is NOT a democracy according to the strictest definition of the word. Recite the pledge of allegiance. Those who utter the pledge are making a vow to support the government, NOT the nation. Sing it again, Sam. What sort of government do we have? Legally and theoretically, it's a republic. In actual fact, it's something else entirely.
“Under dictatorship, people are enslaved but they know it. Here, the politicians constantly lie to people and they become immune to these lies because they have the privilege of voting. But voting is rigged and democracy here is a gigantic profusion of lies and clever brainwashing.” - Allen Dulles, former director of CIA
President Franklin D. Roosevelt defined our actual system as Corporatism. Benito Mussolini used a different word when he defined the politics of some modern industrial nations as fascism. In both definitions, the private sector of large corporations, the military and the financial cartel establish policy. The people are deluded into thinking their votes matter.
POTUS is a middle management position. It doesn't matter who sits at the Resolute Desk. Congress and the President are subservient to the ruling powers - that which has been called by some The Deep State (Mike Lofgren, C. Wright Mills, Greg Palast, Brigadier General Smedley D. Butler, etc.) This isn't some obtuse imaginary hallucination. America really IS a fascist state, but one significantly different from those that arose in twentieth century Europe (Spain, Italy, etc.) America has no single directing influence, or dictator, as was the case in Europe. Instead we have a sort of triune ruling class that decides major policy. Proof of this is that American policy hasn't generally changed in the last seventy years despite the change of administrations from democrat to republican.
The American problem is further complicated by the decline in spiritual leadership in the last half of the twentieth century. Following the last great national revival (circa 1967 - 1977), denominational churches rejected divine inspiration in favor of their own power structure. Evangelistic leaders used the new technology of satellite TV programming to sell conservative political soap to gullible religious folk who were too lazy to study scriptures for themselves. ( * ) Conservative political leaders also took advantage of this cyclopian point of view and gathered votes from them.
When a nation wraps its flag around the cross it inevitably wanders into error and SIN.
"When fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in the flag and waving a cross." - Sinclair Lewis 1935
It is time for Americans to REPENT of their SIN and wickedness. Divine judgment is upon the nation and cannot be reversed, BUT it is possible for individuals to get right with God and obtain mercy for themselves and their families.
By whatever definition you choose to assign the government of this nation, it is lost. One can bury one's head in the sand (or some dark part of the anatomy) but the truth cannot be avoided - only denied or hidden.
that's me, hollering from the choir loft...
(*) Jimmy Baker, a popular TV evangelist was imprisoned for perpetrating real estate fraud on gullible viewers. He later stated that he'd never read the Bible from cover to cover until he was in prison. This is a classic case of a wolf in sheep's clothing leading the ignorant flock. (Mr. Baker is back on the air, btw.....still pushing his rubbish to millions.)