Relative domestic peace and international peace, which has no bearing on the fact that the United States has been steadily eroding civil rights and making disastrous domestic anf foreign policy decisions for decades that set it on this course.

the 90s - spiking lobbying and money in politics, the Gulf War, wage theft and stagnation massively increasing, corporate antitrust laws abandoned, huge leap in school shootings, domestic and foreign terror attacks against the US, the supreme court in a hundred different unconstitutional rulings, civil forfeiture statutes doubling, police militarization, qualified immunity for police officers violating civil rights and the Constitution, and the millennium should be capped off with thr decision of bush v. Gore in 2000 that can be seen directly leading to election interferences in US elections 20 years later.

just some of the events directly leading the united States toward what they are experiencing now.