re: Do you feel this country in a CRISIS? Want to get a feel for people's mood.

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For these reasons, I am inclined to accept any radical and atypical actions from this administration as justified for survival reasons. We are in the twilight between peace and civil war, and normalcy and economic collapse.

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The endpoint of the people pushing the extreme polar partisanship since GWB

I’m familiar with it. I just haven’t seen a Democrat since Bill Clinton smart enough to actually have a plan to do it.

The crop they have these days are certifiably insane.

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My feeling is we are a nation not too far from collapse. The deficit, corruption, lawfare and lawlessness, inflation, reduction in standards of living, instability in the financial markets, corruption and waistfulness, war, left wing ideologies ..

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People who respond with we're on the right track now, aren't wrong. However, prepare for when the Dems get the ring of power back in their possession.

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We could go on, but my perception is we are on the brink of civil unrest and societal collapse, if radical change doesn't come quickly enough.

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It is for a number of reasons.
1. Society is laser focused on what happens in DC by the president. So the fight for power is fully concentrated there and the anxiety of not being in charge is amplified by the media.

2. The uptick in progressivism in women and conservatism in men is a downward spiral. It's worse in other nations like South Korea and Japan, it eventually leads to collapse on its own

3. Tik Tok entertainment and the lack of curiosity to learn new skills in areas like cooking, woodworking, welding, fishing, hunting, gardening, livestock.

4. Celebration of the entertainer(s) people caught up in whatever drama. And just drama in general.

5. the rise of the authoritarian state and it's expected lack of comptence.

I believed that we were headed towards a crisis of greater magnitude and sooner, had we not course corrected with the 2024 elections.

We are still in extremely deep sh*t with respect to the stock market and our debt, but I’m now hopeful that we can both dig ourselves out of it while simultaneously enacting fundamental changes in our economic and trade policies.

The stock market is way overvalued by 100-150% by basic metrics such as price/earnings, profitability, dividend yield, Q-ratio if you want also, etc. they are all out of whack.

The top 10% of stocks account for over 75% of total market value, which has only happened only twice before 1929 & 2000.

The Fed has injected a metric sh*t ton of money into the market, and has kept this market bubble going and growing for 14 years and counting.

Who knows when the bubble will pop, but if history is any guide, it wont be a good time for us regular Americans when it does.

And I do personally believe that the bubble will pop under President Trumps watch, and we are going to witness some wild times both economically and geopolitically as a result.

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Or have I lost my grip?

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That ship sailed a long time ago.