Excellent post. Concise and to the point (the "point" being your sub-heading). It's so true that the USA is hardly the country it was – even as it was a just few decades ago.
As for the "divided" problem, the most terrifying division is the wealth gap, which is increasing to unsustainable extremes. As the middle class is eviscerated, you'll be left with only a tiny but very wealthy upper class, separated from the massive lower class by a huge wealth gap.
That's a defining feature of third-world economies, where all wealth keeps trickling upwards – inexorably. Good luck avoiding that, but it's now at a point where more than luck is needed. You need a major systemic change, and that's not going to come without a concerted effort.
Full Steem Ahead.
p.s. You might find some of the posts in my "Chaos Monitaur" series interesting. Here's a link to the second post. ...
Well said! That is definitely one of my biggest concerns. We have it in us to change things, but I fear people have lost too much hope to try, or they just throw up their arms and say to hell with it.
A huge problem now is mass confusion when it comes to news. People don't trust mainstream media, so they watch news online and increasingly become encased in a bubble where they are only hearing things that back up and justify their own beliefs.
Now people need to be fact checking news because everything is spun.
Maybe someone is working on some kind of decentralized verification of news project. They can call it truth token :p
Edit: There are apparently multiple projects focused on this exact idea. One of them is the decentralized news network. I have not looked into it yet, but I plan to when I have some time.
Now there's an idea! May it bear fruit.