Nonsense. If that were true, we wouldn't be having all this fun discussion.
I see it as the reverse. If we had an honest puppet-free government with an honest press and educated public, if international money wasn't firmly in control of US border and business policy; if the public wasn't manipulated into seeing a frick vs. frack election as a charade, if the US government was operating on an America first basis; THEN we wouldn't be having this discussion.
The established order which has been in effect for at least 100 years has the US on a path to second-rate nation, on the same level as every other country on the planet. Times are interesting now because the established order faces exposure and real opposition from the people, led by Trump.