This is a delusion spread over decades of intense unrelenting propaganda via Hollywood films... Any truth teller gets neutralised through imprisonment or assassination both in the USA and the UK.
Money talks - and that's about all. Look at th oligarchies controlling the politicians, the media education in the West. Their manipulations are just more subtle. Read Chomsky's 'Manipulating Consent', which exposes the nonsense about Western democracies and 'freedom of expression'.