That 'horrible mess of weird ideas' did manage to keep the 'U' in 'U.S.A.' relevant even through a civil war and all that followed. Now that your country more a

That 'horrible mess of weird ideas' did manage to keep the 'U' in 'U.S.A.' relevant even through a civil war and all that followed. Now that your country more and more starts to resemble the D.S.A. is is to be hoped the 'horrible mess of weird ideas' turns out to be strong enough to allow you to continue on the path set out some 250 years ago. For that you need more "We, the people" and less "They, the deplorables/-ists/-phobes". You also need to let go of the nihilism which lies behind what you just stated, a statement easily disproven by ~250 years of history. It is very easy to pick out the warts in that history from the comfortable environment created in part due to it, far harder to set out a course to create that history and make it last for so long.