I do try to remember that America has made it through tough times in the past - the Great Depression, two World Wars, a freaking Civil War, the Vietnam era, the Carter administration, etc etc. But I wasn't alive for those so this current decline is the only one I can relate to and is somewhat unprecedented in my reality. During Carter inflation my Mom was buying the groceries, paying the rent, and gassing up the car, not me.
I also try to remember that on the heels of the brink of collapse has always come great prosperity (until people forget and start electing Democrats again).
But then I remember that, sure, we rebound, but it's one step up and two steps back. The America haters drag us so far down that we can't recover to the previous point before they drag us down again.
I think at some point in the near future we will have a civil war - a real one, not like when progtards get mildly criticized and they think it's LITERALLY AUSCHWITZ!! One where Americans take up arms against each other and fight to the death. I'm not a huge fan of this and in the past I've always wondered why people have to be such goobers and can't work out their differences like civilized adults.....then I got to see the mindless cult of Prog up close and personal. There's no reasoning with them, no middle ground, no compromise.
And it's not like we have statesmen in our government trying to quell the flames - those people are gasoline throwers, not mediators. As long as our ruling class makes money off of conflict, we're not going to have peace. It's just sad that so many people fall for their divisive rhetoric.