This country was sick way before covid hit and the lockdown began in March 2020. The Chump won the election well before them; gun violence was an issue as was police violence. It's just become exacerbated under this monstrous regime! This is a living nightmare!
It was the Civil War and the refusal to destroy the South and its traitors that broke this country.
Yes; the only thing the Civil War accomplished was to hold the country forcibly together with duct tape and baling wire. Nominally we “saved” the Union. In reality the Union never existed in the hearts of people. Now we are as riven as we have ever been.