One thing I have seen time and time again, in several countries, is established political parties gaining power and then using their power to repay the companies and special interest groups that got them elected; and the more established a political party becomes, and the longer they’re in power for, the more corrupt they become and the more they believe they’re "entitled to their entitlements". There are countless examples of this in Canadian politics, and this week two fairly large ones have been brought back to the forefront from the previous (Liberal) government; the long gun registry which was supposed to cost $2 Million but cost $2 Billion and was never audited correctly, and there is little evidence that it has done anything; and the awarding of a 10 year exclusive vaccine production contract worth (nearly) $350 Million to a single company who can't produce enough vaccine for all of Canada, and it appears that the only reason they were awarded this contract was they gave the Liberal Party a one time $56 Million donation the year the contract was awarded.
The difference between the US government and most other western democracies is that Americans have a two party system and (unlike other countries) they have no choice but to vote for one of two corrupt political parties. In almost every other democracy around the world, if they had political parties half as corrupt as the Democrats or Repbulicans several grass-roots parties would form and would win an election and gain power (possibly by creating a coalition). When a major party loses power it "goes into the wilderness" and only returns if it restructures and eliminates corruption so that people can trust them again.
