I agree to a certain degree.
My take is the lack of intelligence of so many people. Take religion.
Half the population believe in Adam and Eve and subsequent bullshit several holy books. Just imagine if they ignored that and spent their time and money building the nation. Look at the billions donated to evangelists who trouser the lot simply by promising the fools something that doesn't exist. That's bad enough but the poor bastards believe it.
Then is the inherited racism that is a prominent now as 200 years ago. All the token gestures offered are simply lip service.
A latest phenomenon is how Trump has divided the nation like no event prior.
But it is typical of low intelligence for them to believe the idiot because he played in their fears which had never been addressed for a hundred years and they bought it like any low IQ sap would follow the Messiah.
Now strangely enough, his reign of lies and prejudice still linger whereby we have republicans hating democrats, and that's not exaggerating it, with a passion. They thought democracy was denying when Trump was beaten so as normal the Messiah spoke and they ended in jail for the j6 riots and soon to be followed by the Messiah himself.
I use the religion analogy because the hate has become religious like.
What Trump has done will take generations to resolve. I see young people today that a spitting venom about the Trump induced fraud bullshit. How can they forget it without medication and jail time.
Even when relative authorities tried their hearts out to save deaths during the pandemic, opposition came from the POTUS himself with his snake oil remedies and deliberately promoting anything but doing the right thing.
Injecting drain clear or something? The only country on earth that reco.mdnded anything but a vaccine.
And as usual the Trump punters took their advice from all the wrong sources. So E idiots really believer god would protect them and over half the deaths were elderly people who would not take recommendations. They were the first to die.
Just imagine how advanced we would be if everyone pulled together for the betterment of the country.
As I said it all returns to the lack of intelligence and inherited stupidity. That sad facet of USA is still as we speak being passed on to little kids by raving lunatic religious nutters who are easy bait for the next wave of stupidity to make them casualties.
Then of course the gun issue whereby the low intelligent nutters a fear a tyrannical POTUS will destroy democracy but never fired a shot when Trump attempted to convert to dictatorship.
Basically this country has no future until fundamental changes are made voluntarily or forced on us.
It cannot survive like this. It's similar to a undetected cancer. No govt has the guts to do anything because half of them are religious gun nuts.
Make of it what you will.