Stephan:   I got a comment from a conservative reader -- about 12% of SR readers seem to be Trump supporters, admonishing me that I cherry pick data, flatly untrue, and in Republican controlled states business is better so what's the problem? Not entirely true, but mostly irrelevant in any case. My calibration for successful governance is the wellbeing of that social group, whether it is a congressional district, a state, or a nation. How happy are people, how long do they live, how fulfilled are their lives, how low is their stress level, how strong is the safety net to help them if things go awry? That's what I care about, because I think the function of government is to foster wellbeing from the individual, to the family, community, nation, and the planet itself. So how happy are Americans? We are in fact one of the most unhappy nations in the developed world, and becoming more unhappy year by year. Specifically, as this report explains,  "The United States is 18th out of 156 countries surveyed — down four spots from last year’s report and five from 2016’s, and substantially below most comparably wealthy nations." Why is that do you think? Why have we gone so badly off track in hte United States, or is this quite deliberate?