[I want the USA back]

You can be put in jail for political reasons. And we thought the USA was not a corrupt banana republic.

[Pearls Before Swine]

And we thought the USA was not a corrupt banana republic.

I stopped believing that with the passage of time. My sense of corruption in government increased through the Clinton years, took a kind of semi-pause during the GWB years, and really accelerated once the Obama/Biden crowd came in (and the Clinton Foundation antics became apparent).

Now, I'd say our government is as corrupt as that of most other countries, on average.

[Lurkinanloomin]

I knew we were a banana republic at noon on Usurpation Day, January 20, 2009.

Not ONE of our appointed or elected stood for the Constitution.