Let's look at justice. When the government (at all levels) and the various "law enforcement" can just steal what you have, with little recourse for the citizen, when they do the "plea deals" by actively asking for punishments far in excess of the crime and freely able to outright lie to people, when they justify killing citizens and visitors because of fear (and actively turning on members of the LEO's who don't kill but try to talk down situations), when they make enough laws that ensure that the general citizenry inadvertently become felons, when the security agencies blatantly lie to those who have oversight and break all the laws that are in place to control them, all of this is "justice"?

Let's look at mercy. When prosecutors and Law enforcement are only interested in numbers jailed (irrespective of the level of the crime), when citizens are treated as dangerous and so cannot travel with no indications of what or why the citizens are treated as the enemy, when extra-judicial murders are initiated because of blah, blah, blah, when lives are destroyed because of government embarrassment, there's mercy.

Let's look at freedom. When ICE and Homeland Security treat citizens as serfs and that the constitution free-zone as existing from the border to hundreds of miles inland, when the LEO's consider everyone to be a criminal because of the "war on drugs" and the "war on terror" and every other "war on", this is freedom?

Many of the citizens of America are to be liken to the frog living in slowly heating water. They can't see the danger they are in and the losses of justice, mercy and freedom that have happened.

I live in a nation that has no such constitutional protections. My own nation is going downhill fast, but America is leading the charge to perdition and we are just following in its footsteps.

When push comes to shove, America is seen as a demon amongst nations for its lack of justice, mercy and freedom. When allied nations to America are officially telling their own citizens not to go there because of the fundamental problems in America, it behooves all to start analysing what is going on. From an external POV, your popular choices for president were a globalist murderer or isolationist incompetent. Neither were going to do any good for your nation. But, what the heck, you have made your bed and you are sleeping in it now. The proof of the pudding will be the next couple of years and unless there is a fundamental change in the grass roots citizens, I expect America to head further downhill at an even faster rate than it is currently undergoing.

So back to my original comment, soil fertility is a symptom of the the underlying problems in America. No justice, no mercy, no freedom, no responsibility, no sacrifice.