Enumerate a number of unfortunate circumstances in the United States of America today. Check. Insist that these instances of these happenings are quite differ

Enumerate a number of unfortunate circumstances in the United States of America today. Check. Insist that these instances of these happenings are quite different than they ever have been before. Repeatedly emphasize how historic and unprecedented these events are. Preemptively brush off any precedents that might be raised. Check. Make the leap from a bombastic enumeration of America's social failures to the clear and obvious conclusion that America is about to collapse. Never mind the number of times that claim has been made before. No real effort at arguing why the one follows the other. Just do some textual hand waving and presto, collapse! Now let's wrap it all up in a ribbon by implying that the collapse is so inevitable that while it may not have occurred yet, it may as well have. So let this be an object lesson from any nations who think to emulate the United States of America. You too will find yourselves inexplicably leaping from "has some significant social problems and failures" to "the entire nation will collapse and the rubble will bury your children."