One day you'll wake up and realize that employment in America is always unusually high. During the depths of the last recession it barely crested 10%.
What makes it seem worse than it is has been the way these unemployed people are highly clustered today. There's counties with 50-60% unemployment, but they're low-population so they don't skew the national rate all that much. It certainly sucks to be in one of those affected areas, and I know people who are stuck there, but the big picture is a different thing.
America is far from a homogeneous thing, but it's also full of opportunity if you're able, willing and prepared to move to them.
I am honestly not that interested in America to wake up at some point and have crazy realizations about it. Its significant worse than where i am from (in every single metric), or the third world countries i just spend months in, and as stated above i was surprised myself how many other countries seem much worse than i expected.
The amount of homeless, jobless, bad education, a meme president and all that is nothing you find in 'your usual developed nation'