Americans absolutely know what corruption and fraud looks like but the problem is that half of us seem to want to get in on it instead of fixing it. Look at MLMs, bitcoin, gambling, stock trading, americans are OBSESSED with get rich quick ideas. A lot of people's anger with 2008 seems to be, not that some people fleeced the general public, but rather that they themselves were not part of that group. Everyone seems to see life as a zero sum game where they can only improve by harming someone else first