- Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic - book, C. Johnson
-The Unraveling of America - article, book W. Davis
America is slowly boiling on the stove of corruption and apathy to become another failed state like Brazil, and has been unraveling for decades. It's not doomer hysteria to suppose it when it's demonstrably happening. Look at the burgeoning number of homeless, extreme budget expenditures on global MIC militarism, horrible leadership, lack of plans, lack of achievements like the JFK days, lack of leadership, lack of organizational effectiveness, lack of disaster containment, violence, political divisions, prevailing social hermitage and animosity, personal habits/escapism/conditions of despair (drug use, alcohol, hikamori isolation, friendlessness, depression, anger issues, road rage, screen addiction, virtual lives, extended adolescence, negative attitudes, poor social skills, fatalism, no families), cannibalism of public commons by corporations, power/influence of corporations, lack of accountability of public officials, lack of community, unequal distribution of wealth, and false beliefs by the middle-class and rich that everything is good enough.
To pull the republic out of this fatal dive towards the ground, nonviolent but assertive direct action is needed to undo the neglect and revitalize the American psyche. Better days are ahead when, not if, people pull-together to solve the big problems and advance breathtaking goals. The universe is malleable, not inevitable.