The number one reason to believe that America is lost is quite simply that it has lost the ability to change. Moneyed interests (with more to come thanks to the

The number one reason to believe that America is lost is quite simply that it has lost the ability to change. Moneyed interests (with more to come thanks to the recent SCOTUS ruling), hyper-partisanship and a complacent, immature behaviour all around means that no matter which way the world heads in the coming decades, America will be left living in the past. It'd be nice if I were wrong, so someone try and give me a realistic scenario under which the US will take responsible, long-term decisions including: - raising taxes to cut the deficit. - reforming healthcare to contain costs - raising the SS age and/or cutting payments.