I haven’t given up on this country yet, but if we cannot even know there is an issue (and sadly, most of the country doesn’t yet know there IS an issue) must less face it, I won’t have to give up on my country.
It will give up on me.
I suggest you study history. What happened as the roman empire fell? What happened in countries controlled by the british empire as it fell? Look at britain now. Same goes for the ottoman empire. Look at Turkey and the middle east now. Austria Hungary empire...look at germany, the balkans and ukraine now.
These are examples of a US future. The US will fracture into regional states. I expect many of those states will be outright communist dictator governments.