C'mon, let's look at the facts and compare ourselves to the rest of the world:

1. Our right wingers, while marching to facism, are also the most paranoid and stupid, so it's easy to install fear and mistrust in their own leaders.

2. Our left wingers, while sucking corporate cock, are also so opposed to right wingers, they're capable enough to install fear in the fuckheads in #1.

3. We don't have an open revolution - so we're not in the middle east, most of which has been waiting for a revolution over 100 years. Wait for Saudia Arabia to fall, then you'll see a lot of shit go wrong.

4. While we're running out of oil, most of your life is stable. Don't buy a car, use public transportation now. That way you can reduce the amount of oil-spend in your life. Move the delta between public and oil-spend (tens of dollars) to a good savings program.

5. Corporations will NOT allow major changes to their revenue streams. What keeps them on top also allows you to benefit, at least for a while.

6. You don't live in China and no matter what happens, 2 billion people will not give a shit about you unless China threatens multinational corps. Long term, this wont matter because 2 billion people are going to revolt looking for democratic reform. Post-revolt is far more dangerous than pre-revolt.

7. You don't live in Japan, north Japan is destitute and wont' have a strong energy grid for at least 6-8 months and possibly years (North and South. South Japan is going to be destitute fixing north Japan for

8. And North Korea is going to conquer us... so what's bad?

TL;DR: In short, the world changes - what you think is status quo in our short lives is really long term change? Either as a race we will journey to the stars or we will falter. And that is what matters.