First things first: remove that sociopath from the Oval Office. 😎

But America may be beyond fixing. @indigoocean’s I'd burn it to the ground and start over comment might be prescient, I’d guess that America’s days are numbered. I remember the Bicentennial well but think that there’s well under a 50/50 chance that there will be a Tricentennial.

We are getting crushed under a mountain of debt. Disparities between wealth and poverty have been getting worse for decades, but now that schism is actually accelerating.

We’re living through the end of an empire. Sir John Glubb's essay The Fate of Empires analyzed a variety of empires throughout history and determined that empires have an average active lifespan of about 250 years for the period from their rise to greatness, until their decline. It’s a sobering read, even decades after having been written.

On the bright side, crypto, A.I., decentralization, and the like have the potential to bring about an age of abundance so it’s not a totally pessimistic future. But if that succeeds, nation states would lose a lot of their raison d’être.