The problem is, with automated trades set up by many institutional firms, any dip in the market will trigger automatic buys keeping the market artificially up even when the underlying securities might be inflated. It'll take more downward momentum on S&P stocks to really push the market down.
As an American adult, I find your list extremely ucompelling. For the average person, that entire list probably accounts for a handful of pieces of mail per year on average. Several of those items are things I've never received by mail and several others are things I'd prefer to receive by email and immediately throw away if I do get them in the mail.
And how exactly is the U.S. throwing its own away? In the last elections, held right on schedule as constitutionally designed, a certain slight majority percentage of voters picked their candidate and he got elected. Or do you define throwing away as any time someone you don't like wins, legitimately, through the exact process designed for picking heads of state?
It's getting tedious to see the hysterics that many go into about the destruction of democracy whenever whatever their emotional and ideological preference is doesn't happen as they want.