Comment by underlipton

Only if you consider what Americans tend to consider corruption. If you, instead, get a little creative and include things like segregation (essentially a massive state-sponsored in-group grift that cost the country an untold fortune in the lost proceeds of misallocated capital, primary among that being the very concept of the modern suburb and the automobile-based infrastructure required to head off its ever-imminent lack of sustainability) and a great deal of our foreign policy (meant to direct funds into the coffers of the MIC and the politicians directly invested in it, at the cost of untold blood and treasure)... well, we've been pretty damn corrupt.