So much doom and gloom... I'll bet most Americans here who think that the US is on the "brink" of whatever man-made economic or cultural disaster you can think

So much doom and gloom... I'll bet most Americans here who think that the US is on the "brink" of whatever man-made economic or cultural disaster you can think of have never lived elsewhere. Things are still remarkably stable here compared with pretty much everywhere else. The US will always be a kind of a mess given our relatively (to other large countries) decentralized government and the enormous cultural diversity, but I believe this is what gives us resiliency in the long run.