The wicked flee even when nothing pursues them.

[Mercury]

America is a wicked nation, no doubts about it. Toxic, soulless, anti social, disconnected, spoiled, fake, and superficial. The only thing Americans care about is themselves. They are paranoid of the entire outdoors and see the outdoors as the hood. And their fear, hate, and paranoia feeds on itself and grows ever bigger, creating toxic consciences that turn shadows into phantoms, doorbells into threats, strangers into serial killers, friendly, down-to-Earth guys into terrorists and serial rapists, popping balloons into exploding truck bombs and gunfire, ambulances into police cars, unattended bags, including on the beach, into 100+ megaton hydrogen bombs, popping bubble wrap into AK-47 fire, mailmen into police officers, maintenance personnel at apartment complexes into SWAT teams, neighbors into gang bangers, bicyclists and pedestrians into armed robbers, stalkers, and burglars, lone/unaccompanied men into mass shootout/massacre suspects, people of color/ethnic descent into serial killers, the outdoors in general into an all-out war zone more dangerous than Berlin, Germany at the height of World War II, and even parents (dads especially) into pedophiles.

It's no wonder people who live like demons flee like mad at the sound of a windblown leaf. Americans live like demons.