Reply #28: we've been further down than this before [View All]

[NorthernSpy]

It's true that things aren't so hot right now. And it's also true that we can expect things to worsen further.

However, remember that America has made it through worse times than this. It's just that having fairly recently enjoyed worldwide near-hegemony in just about every sense, it's hard for us to ignore the feeling of having deteriorated and lost our place as a country. That's probably also why the political right has been so defensive lately -- too many serious failures have happened on their watch, and the public mood is not really one that the right can make use of.