Yet, it's weird how the U.S. is doing pretty well overall.

Maybe it's luck?

Or maybe something to do with the prescience of several men who laid out a framework for federalism and distributed power with clear checks and balances, ensuring resilience and the longest running constitutional democracy in the world [1], understanding that reasonable people can disagree and that the most effective form of governance is a non-centralized distributed system that serves the needs of state citizens first.

Or it could be all the corn. [2]

[1] https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2011/aug/08/jon-huntsm...

[2] https://www.investopedia.com/articles/markets-economy/090316...