Glavin: America, the broken? Strangely, it's not the case

It is a question worth asking, this being an historic year for American dyspepsia, and this also being that particular week that comes ’round every year when Americans assert their mettle in fireworks displays and patriotic barbecues with degrees of fervour Canadians would never be so coarse as to exhibit, or so we might flatter ourselves by claiming.
The simplest way of putting the question: Is America irreparably broken?
Quite a few Americans appear to believe so. In a Rasmussen Reports