We are governed by economic morons.
Until that changes, not much else will.
That is the real core of the problem.
Our leaders have two principal tasks: national defense, and managing the multi-trillion dollar income transfer machine that, tragically, is our national economy.
The economic model in vogue with the elites is sophomoric socialist fantasy having little to do with real world economics. The only hope is to elect people who challenge the childish economics taught by the Ivy League/Oxford/Cambridge progressive training camps.
Jimmynomics gave us Reagan. The only hope I see is a similar reaction to the even worse Obamanomics.