It is not just America. The whole west is failing in differing ways, to differing degrees, and at different states; but the heading is generally the same. This is also just the start of a lagging problem. It’s civilizational cancer or HIV, not a laceration or broken bone. The whole immune system is unable to detect what is killing the body, let alone act against the threat to its existence. By the time it is obvious to the naive and short sighted that there is a problem, things will long have been terminal.