>>509619492He speaks from old arguments.
It used to constantly be argued over the nature of mankind.
Authoritarians tend to argue that people are inherently evil and dangerous and need to be forced to do good.
Libertarians tend to argue that people are inherently good and believe in community and rules/regulations force them to do evil for the sake of others.
Part of what made the US Founding unique was the fact that as this was discussed among the founders, they realized that both arguments are stupid.
The majority of people do not think in grandiose terms of good and evil.
The majority just want to be free and happy, as is their God given right.
However those who seek power and control are almost always evil or at least purely selfish.
So the US systems were built with the idea that so many conflicting systems would force evil people to compromise with each other and do good, while providing enough protections that the average person can just live his life.
Not even 100 years after the founding, the country started to fail, the Civil War while connected, was not the failure.
The way the industrialists took over the nation and almost destroyed it was the failure.
That led to a massive populist and what was at the time called progressive revolt.
These days the industrialists have taken over again and are actively destroying everything, but Occupy Wallstreet (the Progressive side) was destroyed by people with a lot of money pushing idpol, and the populist movement has been commandeered by a figurehead who takes orders from Neo-Cons.
It's a mess, but it's not a mess from "all peopare evil" it's a mess from Evil has gotten stronger tools, and it will be some time before the people finally cannot take it anymore.