“The US is a failed state.”
True for many decades.
When it hit home for me was when Mohammed Atta’s flight school visa was mailed out in March 2002.
https://www.cnn.com/2002/US/03/12/inv.flight.school.visas/
We all know about 9/11. But ultimately, more damage was done through the Patriot Act. The FBI is now weaponized because of an intelligence failure on 9/11.
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness…when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.—