I’d say this analysis from outside the United States and about the United States is dead on and reflects my thinking about the end of the American dream. I don’t think things will change, certainly not for the better. My sense is that there will be a “Civil War” in this country and it probably has already started.
The United States is a dangerously volatile country. There has always been a palpable element of derangement in its social order. It has a record of assassinations and attempted assassinations, and a perennial problem with violent crime which is matched by almost no other first world country. But what is happening now feels different: apocalyptic and inexorable. And the reason it cannot be stopped is that the people, both the population at large and those who are supposed to be in charge, do not want it to stop whatever they may claim.
If they sincerely wanted to put an end to it, they could do so in a moment of reasonable consensus. But they have consistently resisted any attempt to enforce standards or controls on the virulent social media activity which is undermining the real freedoms they revere. So the tide of what would once have been called “extremism” – the incitement of violence and the perpetration of blind hatred – are now the accepted currency of political discourse.
Janet Dailey The American Dream is ending in a Psychotic Breakdown The Telegraph
Esot-eric 
Spot on. It is peculiar because no other modern country seems like this at all. I wonder what the true roots of all this is and if it goes way back to the days of slavery. This started early on in our country with the whole premise of some people are beneath others and don’t deserve what others long for and they are worth much less. So the “we are all equal” thing was never how people really felt.
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I was somewhat familiar with Charlie Kirk and his political philosophy, but like a lot of right wing personalities, I did not pay that much attention to him. It seemed to me that he was against anything that represented progress that occurred past 1960. That being said, he certainly did not deserve to be shot and murdered just like thousands of school, kids, innocent civilians, etc. I am no longer shocked by any violence or cruelty that occurs in this country. I try to avoid reading the idiocy expressed on social and public media. I have long lost the delusion that we are an exceptional country. One would hope that more rational politicians and leaders would steer us away from all the craziness that is happening. But I don’t see a lot of backbone or courage in our political system. Can you imagine the amazement and shock by people in other countries who are witnessing our current events? It’s a shame that the moderation and rationality of Utah governor Spencer Cox does not represent more of the thinking in today’s Republican Party…
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