KLEPTOCRACY IN AMERICA???

The term means rule by thieves.

A kleptocracy is a pejorative for a government

PERCEIVED to have a particularly severe and systemic problem

with the selfish misappropriation of public funds by those in power.

The term is applied to a government subject to control fraud

that takes advantage of governmental corruption

to extend the personal wealth and political power

of government officials and the ruling class 
(collectively, kleptocrats),

via the embezzlement of state funds

at the expense of the wider population,

sometimes without even the pretense of honest service.

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"Decency, security and liberty alike demand

that government officials shall be subjected

to the rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen.

In a government of laws,

existence of the government will be imperiled

if it fails to observe the law scrupulously. 

Our government is the potent,

omnipresent teacher.

For good or for ill,

it teaches the whole people

by its example.

Crime is contagious.

If the government becomes a lawbreaker,

it breeds contempt for the law;

it invites every man to come a law unto himself.

It invites anarchy."

(United States v. Olmstead, 277 U.S. 438 (1928).