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Are we in trouble? . . . turn on the news. Then draw your own conclusions.
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But no more in trouble than the rest of the world. Look at the ongoing wars in the Middle East, the conflict in Hong Kong. The ethnic strife in parts of Southeast Asia. The rise and fall of bloody conflict in varying parts of Africa.
When compared with so much of the world, it is still hard to understand where it is much better except for maybe in the resorts of the Caribbean (except when a hurricane approaches or hits).
Is everything rosy? No. But it never has been. The alleged blessing of the past are found by selective filters and the problems of the present are only seen as different from the past by changing filters.
What is the criteria for punishment? Bankruptcy? There have been bankruptcies since the beginning of business. Evidence of either unwillingness to change with the times or other problems. Kodak essentially is no more. But not because of some curse on America.
But when someone gathers huge amounts of data and decides to look at it with a view to find what they want and ignore what doesn't fit their premises, they very often succeed.
Still, how cursed are we? Show me more than anecdotal evidence. An example does not a pattern create. And the plural of anecdotes is not "data."