There's an Even Bigger Takeaway

The big takeaway is that in the United States, civil society has declined. While the blame cannot entirely be laid at the feet of big government and big business (individual actors are involved), there is strong evidence to suggest that the crisis in American civil society is driven primarily by the welfare state and government policies favoring deindustrialization, financialization and centralization of the economy. [More]

So our diversity isn't our strength?

That's the one thing I see missing from this.

And the decline isn't universal.