It’s best not to think of the US as “in trouble” so much as it is a corpse having its organs, fluids, and bones removed by people like the Kochs for quick sale.
The US as a society died and was beyond hope for self repair before the first Gen Z was even born. This is just leftover momentum and the fire sale.
The only “hope” is that whatever replaces this failed experiment is of the fed up people’s design, and not exploitation engine 2.0 by the oligarch class that bastardized and doomed this one.
Nothing can improve under the current constitutional framework. Too far captured, too far owned, too far propagandized, too compromised to operate as anything more than the entrenched power apparatus of the owner class.