In reply to Yanis Nayu:
> Does make you wonder whether the US is a uniquely sick country. Why do many of its citizens want to kill each other?
My impression is that there are a lot of influential, devisive and toxic factors in US history which feed into a peculiar and I think unique national psyche.
Just off the top of my head;
The Pilgim Fathers, bringing that WASPish religion into the mix from the get-go
British colonial rule & war of independence
Louisiana purchase,
Slavery,
Civil war
Frontier individualist mentality meeting state and federal government,
The Klan and segregation
Civil rights
McCarthyism, Klaus Fuchs, that whole Reds under the bed thing
The cold war
Internment of Japanese Americans in WW2, treatment of indigenous people,
Ellis Island, Trumps proposed wall and a complex history of immigration,
Checks and balances, paralysis and gridlock
Lobbying and Corporate influence
Military power and interventions
Globalisation, outsourcing, Neo-liberalism, disenfranchisment and inequality
Difficult legacies.