But the US is particularly 'fucked up' in terms of social divide and environmental problems.
The funny thing is that you have done it to yourselves! You are not a helpless banana republic in the the thrall of a bully nation (often the US in those cases btw!)
The horrifying thing is that the US society that has developed, which has managed to ravage its own country in record time, is hugely influential in world politics and polcies and also has the world largest arsenal nuclear and otherwise.