Unfortunately, the USA is in a death spiral and it is extremely difficult to see how this can be slowed, never mind reversed. In consequence, charlatans, blowhards, and morons rule the Republican Party and act only in their own interests and to hell with the interests of the USA. These creatures could not succeed without the votes of tens of millions of easily duped citizens, which tells us all we need to know about how suitable representative democracy is as a system of governance in a complex rapidly changing inter-connected world.