Well that's the funny thing about public opinion.
It tends to change over periods of time. What's thought of as acceptable one day may be out of fashion in a few years time. And over the course of decades, well who knows how the public will behave. Although I do tend to agree with you on the future of this country, it is well on its way to becoming another third world cesspool. That shouldn't be for another several decades, so maybe technology will develop enough by then for some of its former greatness to establish itself somewhere else. Spreading out while the parent civilization rots away from within and dies.