Pretty depressing statistics.  #1 in number of incarcerated citizens per capita, number of adults who believe angels are real, and in defense spending.

America is kind of like the guy with the compound down the road.  He has a whole bunch of guns and barbed wire and threatening signs around his place.  His kids are shoeless, uneducated, and have rotten teeth.  He beats his wife frequently.  And he has mountains of smelly trash that keep piling up around his place.

Until recently he's been reasonably civil and has served to protect the neighborhood from other thugs, but now he's showing signs of being totally deranged - sitting in his front yard in his underwear, surrounded by firearms, screaming incoherent threats at everyone who walks by.  

You know the type.  Is this guy going to get better or worse?  How do these things usually end?