We face more dangers—perhaps greater ones—than the coronavirus. Both the US as a community of people and its economy are under dangerous assault by forces of our own making. This article focuses on the threat to community.  A future article will address the threat to the economy.

Here are three examples of what has happened to the United States as a community of people:

https://russia-insider.com/en/russian-woman-working-college-professor-us-writes-about-sovietization-amerika/ri28341 

https://www.unz.com/sbpdl/its-because-youre-white-and-i-hate-white-people-white-woman-randomly-assaulted-in-portland-by-black-woman/ 

https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2020/03/06/feminists-under-attack-from-the-new-victim-group/ 

In the first link above a college professor who emigrated to the US from the Soviet Union as a young woman describes the Sovietization of America.  She doesn't mean that the economy has been communized or socialized.  She means the rise of denunciation in place of reasoned discourse.

Education has become the home of wokeness and Identity Politics. These ideologies allow "people to hound and persecute with impunity.  People love it because it allows a little person to completely destroy somebody who has done something great.  This is very human. Once you have removed any moral or religious obstacles to that behavior, what's to stop anybody?"