re: How close do you feel we are to a full societal collapse as a nation?

Some sense of relativity and looking at things from a moderate perspective will indicate that we aren't close to overall societal collapse and certainly not closer than we have ever been. About every 30 -50 years this nation has faced an existential threat including year 0. We have managed to navigate all of them. The minor issues we face today, relative to the civil war of the great depression, are mere bumps in the road.