It is quite common for once democratic and just societies to turn into hypocritical, corrupt sytems that betray everything they once stood for. It happened to Rome. It happened to Great Britain. It happened to Germany. It has happened to America.

You are mistaken, U.G., because you are just out of date, that's all. America is no longer what it once was.

And you are mistaken that people would oppose present American policies because they have a hostility toward democracy! Good lord! Virtually nobody has a hostility toward real democracy. I've met people from many parts of the world, and they all long for real democracy. America does not give them real democracy. America gives them war, bombs, puppet governments, death squads, fear, destruction, chaos, and domination of their lands by a few huge corporate entities...mostly for the sake of controlling oil and running the illegal drug trade (while simultaneously pretending to fight it!).

You are living on ancient mythology which has long since ceased to impress anyone except the loyally deluded, and they are few outside the borders of the USA. They may even be dwindling to a minority within the borders of the USA...but that's a little hard to determine, since you have what amounts to a controlled media for the most part.