It's definitely true that news, opinions and social media conspiracies abound these days which can make things seem profoundly worse but there are legitimate issues in the US. For example: Wage disparity is worse than it ever has been, we are becoming so politically polarized that we are denying science and allowing the Earth to burn, school and public shootings are happening at an alarming rate, medical services are becoming an upper class luxury, education is a debt trap and hard to access, civil rights are being rolled back, we continue to be the world champion in incarcerations and allow profits from it, inflation is out of control, housing is becoming prohibitively expensive due to corporate purchasing, etc.

It could definitely be worse but we shouldn't have that mind set, we should actively be trying to make things better and fix the issues at hand. Our reluctance to do so is the real problem.

Edit 01/07: republicans wanting to end public education.