America is a parody of itself, focused on the least important issues at the expense of the most important, chasing nickels and dimes while spending trillions each year without a care in the world. The United States of America has become a deeply unserious nation, and everyone can see it.
The good news is that the problems are fixable, but the frustration comes because the causes of the problems are entirely preventable and yet seem to be happening by design. Expecting the government to solve the very problems that they created seems like a losing strategy. Maybe the point is to not fix the problems.