Ever since the communication revolution, borders mean less and less to those in it's grip.
Governments (and corps) are simply proxies for systems of thought, as acted upon by a group of people.
These systems of thoughts spill through lines of communications.
Systems of thought that overwrite others or kill their hosts, succeed.
America's system of thought is balanced on a knifes edge.
America's system is one primarily of efficiencies of scale. That's why it works.
Well, mostly. Democracy is a "forensic" system. It punishes the victim.
Less laws, hope everyone behaves for the most part, and prosecute the (hopefully) small number of offenders.
Ahhh, there's the rub.
American's for the most part, believe in a God, of some brand or other.
This built-in mental cop says, "Do good, cause there's Hell to pay otherwise"
Our Deist (not really Christian, go look it up) Founding Fathers knew this
when they built the system. Hence the no established religion kind of thing.
But the Generic God, that, for a very long time, was woven into the fabric of the system, began to fade.
It's behavioral component was weighted less, and less.
Balance this with the Islamic system of thought, and the Communist system of thought.
These 3 systems are mutually exclusive, thus guaranteed strife.
We are approaching the collapse brought about by the communication revolution. Culture being washed out.
Being brought down to some saddle point. No longer can the American
system of thought depend on God, and look what happens in our corps and govt.
Do whatever you can get away with. Hey, that sounds just like China!
Except, they didn't start with the God complex.
There is no happy end to this story. And yes, despite the cloying doomsday ringing, really will happen.
It's the nature of complex systems with finite resources.