I'm with Kevin, I think we are in a down turn now but people will increasing reject what is happening and eventually pull out of this. Tomorrow--no, but at some point in the future---precisely because this downward spiral isn't sustainable.
Also, as Kevin points out everything in our lives is not going the wrong way. My Grandchildren have educational opportunities never afforded to me. Think of all the things that seem to be threatening our way of life and in most cases we know how to cure them---we only are missing the will.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis