To hear the candidates tell it, the United States is a nation in its last hours as a viable democracy. When, at the debate's end, a member of Congress from Detroit told an interviewer the country was "in a shambles" (America, she meant, not Iraq) she only reflected the tone of the candidates' recitals.
Dims have a Mighty Mouse complex......they're hoping for a US collapse so that they can come in to "save the day" like in the cartoon.