"America" as we knew it is being intentionally dismantled. The systems in place were not providing sufficient control to the control freaks who prefer to rule rather than represent. They are in the process of eliminating representative government. The wealth being generated in the United States was a result of those very systems now being dismantled. So what you call "falling apart" is these systems failing, which is rapidly diminishing access to resources and destroying the social bonds people formed under that system. The sad part is that enough of the population believes the control freaks actually give a shit about them and are willing to support their own destruction. That is hard to watch.