It can be.
For tiny insignificant countries in the larger scheme of things.
Sweden, Denmark, Holland.
Or essentially criminal societies like Venezuela, Mexico, with their own brand of benign neglect; the death rate there, apart for the drug wars is never reported, and problably impossible to identify.
For a nation of 310,000,000 people, which developed through rugged individualism, initiative, innovation and a moral compass ----- never in a million years.
The perverts, the parasites, the politicians (but I repeat myself,) the eternally neurotically oppressed, can't outnumber the real workers. At least not yet.
When foreclosures nationwide are the rule, rather than the exception in addition to unemployment and welfare, the powder keg WILL go off. And it won't be pretty.
What's the old American assertion?
"I would rather die standing and free, than on my knees in chains!"
I choose the free man.