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You can continue that all the way up to the President, a 37-felony convict.

It feels like every new innovation in our society now is just a new way to diffuse responsibility.

In theory, the highest and last level of accountability is the voters. The system isn't perfect, but it's still democratic enough that this sort of thing couldn't happen without the approval or at least indifference of a big chunk of voters.

I don't think you can call voters a level of accountability given how trivial it is for voters to be lied to. Like politicians lie constantly, not even in the weasely "well I said this, not this" sort of thing, I mean they just lie. They tell easily dis-proven lies, on camera, with no accountability from the media or any kind of overseeing entity.

It’s easy to detect their lies. The problem is that the voters don’t want to know they’re being lied to.

Well, the US is the most litigious country on earth, so that tracks.

The US is the most litigious country on Earth if you go by the total number of lawsuits filed per year, but of you go my the more reasonable measure of lawsuits filed per year per capita the US is #5 [1]. Here are the top 5 by number of lawsuits per 1000 people per year:

  123.2 Germany
  112.2 Sweden
   96.8 Israel
   95.9 Austria
   74.5 United States

[1] https://eaccny.com/news/member-news/dont-let-these-10-legal-...

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