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Oh, so that's why Canadian society gets along so well with them.
That's hilarious. Come on, man. Americans are constitutionally incapable of doing this. (And somehow I don't think the Romans were either.)
You have written in your supreme law that it's permitted to prepare for a war against your own countrymen, and your founding posture is that this is inevitable. Most of the laws in that document grant similar powers for the same purpose.
Even more incredible is that your militiamen/law enforcement actually honor these laws even though it makes basically zero logical sense for you to permit citizens to do even half the things they get up to.
You have civil war statues that venerate the enemies of the Union, and people don't want to take them down precisely because they are symbols of you not wanting to do this. The colors of that existential enemy are still publicly flown in a way that also invokes this, but from the other direction. (It's also the root justification given for why you're allergic to most varieties of collectivism, be that the red star or the black swastika variety, of which you are both and neither.)
You settled with the Indians despite really not needing to. (And the Germans, and the Japanese, in stark contrast to what was normal conquest behavior at the time.) You have foreign prisoner accounts that, and this is true with respect to the Soviet Union as well, that what you considered sub-citizen treatment and what they considered a propaganda picture are one and the same.
You go to war under the guise that you fight for your enemy's right to collectively decide to be your enemy (or "for democracy")- absurd nonsense by the standards of any historical power. Your media machine continually bombards the populace with this conclusion, even in movies that really don't have much to do with war.
Your civil religion has a God whose entire statement of godliness is a posture of specifically targeting what's wrong over who's wrong. Perhaps most of the above posture is the logical consequence of a people who are expecting God in the gaps that your laws create, like the Virgin Mary appearing on a piece of toast.
The day the US government fully embraces acting in the best interests of its citizens is also the day it ends.
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