Basically my point.
Ethnically homogeneous societies with millennia of proud tradition and solidarity actually accomplish these things.
As a mash-up country, which we inarguably are, we don't seem capable of doing it.
We lack the solidarity to do it.
We're a plethora of tribes in an uneasy alliance.
Will that suddenly change?
I'd like that for future generations
but I could not in good conscience predict it.
Canada is ethnically diverse (69 percent white, 31 percent Asian/Indigenous First Nations/Black) and they have a viable liberal welfare state.
Our problem is we are still dealing with the fallout of 400 years of chattel slavery and Jim Crow.