The US-problem

"Illigal imigrants" will not be stopped by building walls. Racial conflicts can not be stopped by putting over a million "Afro-Americans" in prison, giving food stamps to a large portion of other minorities. 

The WASP (White Anglo Saxon Protestant) is the new minority in the US. Maybe Trump is representhing that group ? The Republicans were not able to push their "traditional"candidates (Bush-clan etc.) 

The division with the Democrats is even stronger. The Clinton-clan against (New York, Jewish intelectual) Bernie Sanders. Both parties will have difficulties accepting their future possible President. 

The US economy is the basis for the US "superpower"status. In itself being less dependent for oil from outside would be a good thing. But fracking may cause earthquakes (but those quakes might be even less spread and therefore "bigger" without the fracking. Fracking could give extra seismic pressure release points ?) were it not that the value of the US $ is linked to energy. 

Ghadaffi (Libya), Saddam Hussain (Iraq), Iran, Russia, China, Venezuela, Brazil were/are thinking of paying for energy in other currencies than the US $. Most of the US$ value is based on the counterbalance value in energy. Fossil fuels are the backbone of any war-effort. Strategicly the "group"with the most energy resources will win any war. (That is why the US keeps supporting Saudi Arabia, the main reason the US want Assad to go in Syria. Russia and Iran combined may have more energy resources than the "US-group".)

In the 19th century slavery divided the union. In the 21th century energy is dividing the union. Alaska, Texas being the traditional oil-states. California has other needs, high-tech it needs a global market, but the drought is making live in California "very hard".  A lot of fracking-oil is only profitable with high oil prices. The "old states" are financial/banking global players. 

The pieces of the US jig-saw may not fit together as well as they once did. 

European companies (like Royal Dutch Shell, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Dutch_Shell very dominant in the Netherlands politically, but a global player) have to "spread"their power over several regions. US companies (and to a certain level that goes also for Chinese, Russian, Brasilian (Petrobras) companies) may have more grip on their native country. 

US politics is Wall-street-made. A democracy can not function in that way. (In the Netherlands Shell is much to dominant due to the royal family who owns up to 25% of Shell http://royaldutchshellplc.com/tag/queen-beatrix-of-the-netherlands/, the British royals proberbly also have large shares in Shell. In a certain way royalty here is comparible to the Gulf States, only for "show" we have a democracy. Important decisions are not made by parlement.)

I think citizens have a civic duty to inform themselves. When "news" is brought by the same companies that own much in a country that is a democratic shortcoming. 

We-as humans-are all in the same boat. We-as citizens-have to reformulate what a democracy should look like. 

Access to education, healthcare, housing etc. should be democratic rights-fundamentals. Not only for people in "the west" but if we do not want to spent billions on refugees-those rights have to be global fundamental human rights. Even if that means that a very rich elite, the 0.1%, has to give op some of their incredible wealth.