This could be an illusion from talking to two different sets of people, but it seems like the folks who say "We're the richest nation in the history of the world, of course we can do X" are the same folks who say "We're a tottering dysfunctional empire on the verge of collapse"..
Of course in reality both are fantasies, we're a developed country with some unique structural issues and challenges but overall a pretty good place to live.
And of course, both "we're the richest" and "we're about to collapse" are histrionic statements intended to motivate policy change and counteract status quo bias, which of course both statements fail to do.
Anyway, from looking at the replies, it appears it wasn't an illusion; the same people often think both things, and don't realize that they're in contradiction.
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