Drew, why are you adding to the lies?

Let's start with: "America is itself a young nation. A brat among its global elders." Among the world powers America is the oldest nation. Russia, Germany, China, and Japan as we know them were reborn in the last hundred years. India got its independence later than the U.S. same goes of Canada, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, the list goes on. The French Revolution happened after ours. There are very few countries with as long a history of continuity in governance as the USA.

What do you mean when you say "I’m under no illusions as to the fact that America is falling apart?"

Your words are ambiguous. You certainly don't mean the U.S. is breakup up into smaller pieces that will have their own governments. That is what a republic is, the U.S.A. is a republic United not breaking up. Do you mean that Federal Institutions are dysfunctional or are not providing for the common good? Well, certainly but because we are a republic the State and local governments can fill the gaps left by the Federal Governments. They can probably take better care of their people anyway.

Regarding: "Reports say that our tech giants are sucking our identities dry for profit, but a lot of us have seen Jeff Bezos speak in public. He seems nice enough." Really what reports, identities can't be sucked dry and people are freely giving out their identities. You can give out your identity endlessly without depleting it. Jeff Bezos seems like a nice guy to you? He seems like a greedy, self-interested silicon valley bro to me.

And about this: "We should have way more diversity in leadership of every sector, but white guys like me know that would lead to a larger pool of people competing for their jobs, so they instead choose to believe that only people like them are qualified to hold those jobs." So you too are a greedy self-interested bro too. You and the other bro's don't believe the lie "only people like them are qualified to hold those jobs" if that was the case you would not oppose diversity because you know the non-whites and non-males would quickly wash out due to poor performance and your superiority would be demonstrated. You know better than to believe the lie.

Masks, "We should wear masks to prevent the spread of Covid-19, but wearing a mask sucks, and therefore it’s easier to believe they don’t work." Misses the reality of that issue. People decided to not wear masks as a show of political affiliation and of belief in their superiority. If wearing a mask sucks for you, you are such a wimp that you probably could not run a mile.

"We don’t have universal health care, but buddy, have you seen how long it takes to get your appendix removed in Canada?".....can you imagine of the U.S. Federal Government tried to set up a government health care system, we can barely conduct a census or deliver the mail, look a VA healthcare. That is why we are considering Medicare for All, commercial providers with a single government payer and even that the Fed's will probably screw up.

I could keep going almost every paragraph you wrote here is a distortion, as big a lie as the ones you highlight.

TEK