I find the powers of the office of the president of the US to be disturbingly broad and I find it really strange how little criticism this receives. The President of the US holds far more power than other heads of state. In what ways is the US unusually authoritarian?

For the office of the presidency there is the executive order, which despite being used to intern the Japanese during WW2 somehow we aren't fighting to revoke, as well as being the head of the military, which seems like an incredibly awful idea to me.

Presidents have not been satisfied with merely commanding the world's largest army, and have expanded their war powers to the point that the office now wields the power of life and death over the much of the planet, and the nation responds mostly with a collective shrug.

With regards to other unusual authoritarian structures, unlike other countries our police have no duty or obligation to serve the citizens, but they do have qualified immunity and civil asset forfeiture.

And the judicial system is oppressive and coercive by holding people in jail on bond who have committed no crime, by making pleading guilty to crimes you didn't commit often the path of least resistance, and by prison labor.

And then there's the domestic spying program.

Am I thinking about any of these poorly? Are there areas that I think are disturbingly authoritarian that are actually common in parliamentary democracies? What am I missing?

And why are we in this nation so completely apathetic to clear infringements of rights and justice?