@kaia a lot of things are done in the usa to remove accountability to facilitate the social changes and diversity undermines social cohesion unless you have a strong top-down repression. so it kind of gets back to, if you forced rules on people it wouldn't serve power anymore and they wouldn't find the desire to import them. so they are related imo. in that sense immigration isn't the first cause of problems but it is related.

I don't know how you get back high trust.