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A lot of people are being shown that a lot of stuff that kept their country going was decorum, shame and tradition, not rule of law.
Regulatory capture and citizens united both exist to undo those checks and balances. No system is immune to corruption.
America was built on the ideas of freedom and equality by slave owners who didn’t think women should be allowed to vote.
I mean, they did give an earnest try at preventing a king from happening, and it did work for a couple hundred years.