I just have come to accept that's just how things are in the U.S..

>Scott Greytak, the advocacy director for the U.S. office of Transparency International, cited a broader “decay” in U.S. political institutions as a major contributor to the country’s declining rating. Gretyak noted that public confidence in U.S. elections has been undercut by disinformation and record-setting amounts of untraceable money in elections—especially in 2020, when twice as much was spent compared with 2016.
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>“Second, and increasingly important, are these series of really bombshell exposés by media outlets that are demonstrating how much dirty money is flowing into the United States’ financial system,” he said, referencing a joint investigation published by BuzzFeed News and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists last year that revealed how major banks had knowingly allowed trillions of dollars of suspect financial transactions to go ahead, enabling drug kingpins, kleptocrats, and terrorists to move corrupt cash around the world.

All across the country, lobbyists and interest groups are rife, and our political system is crap. Both parties accuse the other of corruption, and both are right because both parties are infested with corruption. People like to bang on corruption of other countries, but arguably the U.S. is just as bad as a lot of them. We're not Russia levels of bad yet, but looking at the news, I feel that future is always looming in sight.

People say we shouldn't spend more money on foreign aid and spend it here. I'm not convinced that they are saying that because they are righteous, but more because they want the money here to steal themselves.