Well let's look at america as an overall across its history.
America went from nothing to a major world super power sitting right up at the head of the table in record time. We went from a handful of people on a wooden ship, to being a super power in a few hundred years. Pioneered a lot of the worlds advances and innovations, an average American could take care of his family while getting a new car every 10 years, go on a vacation once a year, put his kids through school and retire, we had relatively low violence the past 100 years and good education, we had a dollar so powerful all the other major nations in the world traded in our money, no one dared invade us because they respected and feared us, and we were a symbol of freedom.
But we're destroying all of that in just less than a decade at the very same time we try to get rid of our morals, values, standards and pride that carried us through over 400 years of consistent progress.
That's as stupid as Oreo saying "we have been the number 1 cookie in America for a long time and it's made us rich and powerful and were still doing great. So I propose we scrap the Oreo recipe and completely change it!"
No. If something has made you successful and continues to make you successful you don't change what you're doing. When you change what works you get what doesn't work.
