So what is the solution? Too many people grumbling - not enough real solutions. Run for office?
Since the current state of America is that of a declining global empire in-denial, the first step is to acknowledge that fact and begin a geo-political return to its Constitutional republic roots.
For starters, I would suggest:
1. Closing down all of its military bases abroad and restructuring its military into becoming the greatest purely defensive military establishment in the World.
2. De-occupying all territories that are not Constitutionally a part of the US nation state.
3. Begin a nationwide retrenchment strategy of building up industries that makes exclusive use of its legal domestic labor workforce.
4. Enact government fiscal policies that fund meaningful education that prepares its youth for productive nationwide full-employment.
5. Militarize its continental borders to prevent unauthorized entrance into its territory.
6. Abolish the federal reserve bank and return national currency control to the federal government.
What is ironic of the oversimplified list above is that it essentially echoes China's main political and economic policies that have contributed to its ascension into becoming the first most economically dominant superpower that did not resort to imperial military interventions, domestic coups, illegal occupation, instigated revolutions, or the weaponization of its currency and interest rates to get there.