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"..as the US falls apart."

If you actually believe this, you are welcome to short American stocks. See how that works out.

The stock market isn't representative of 1) how the economy is doing and 2) how your civil rights are doing.

Would you say the surveillance state we've lived under since Bush is fine because the stock market is at an all time high? Similarly for the global inflation under COVID: is it fine since stocks went up?

If you think the country is falling apart and people are going to flee, then yes stock market would fall if those things did actually happen.

Not necessarily. There are quite a few levers the U.S. government and Federal Reserve have to keep things humming along since we're a giant. Stocks are not as rational as you're making them out to be. As the saying goes "gradually, then suddenly"

Your remarks about "shorting the market if you think this" are not only ignorant but passive aggressive.

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