How the Great America Is Gradually Ceasing to Be Great

The article discusses the critical accumulation of huge economic, engineering and social problems in the US and their connection with the extreme polarization of political struggle. These long-standing US problems, taken and considered TOGETHER, look like a diagnosis of a serious disease. The author discusses issues such as (in comparison with other high-income countries): poorly guarded border, transparent to illegal immigrants and drugs; a huge number of drug-addicted youth and extremely high mortality rates from drug overdoses; ultra-expensive services: medical, university, housing, others; poor maternal and child health care and high infant mortality; too many poor families for such a rich country; poor quality school education; poor filled state budget and large national debt; huge trade deficit; moving thousands of manufacturing facilities and millions of jobs overseas (as a result of misunderstood ideas of “free trade”); dilapidated infrastructure and poor protection from natural disasters; the political competition between the two main political parties in America has escalated into a dead-end political confront. All these problems have led America to a decline in living standards within the country as well as a partial loss of authority and leadership in the world.