A Nation of States

I'm reading Mark J. Perry's article, I had found out some fairly interesting statistics about our nations economic output. Now with everything that has gone on politically, I think it's safe to say that a great number of Americans think that our country is a disappointment, a joke, and even not worth representing. And I understand that we, the people, are not a perfect people. In fact, this country is full of mistakes, but it is our job to try and fix that, not watch from the sidelines and cry in our safe spaces. Looking at the graph shown by Perry, America, and even our state's GDP (including California, Texas, Florida and New York) are the leading runners on the globe. That's saying quite a bit for a "disappointment of a country".