Much of America, particularly the blue bits, need a good bout with insolvency.
Politics will not change otherwise
The newspapers in Tulsa debated this throughout my youth in the Sixties and Seventies, with the more conservative paper (Tulsa Tribune) predicting that mathematically it would have to end disastrously and the leftwing - although they would seem almost conservative by today’s standards - paper (Tulsa World) boldly predicting that miracles of technology undreamed or increasing efficiency would somehow magically make money to pay the retirements on all these government employee that were being hired.
Here we are.
No surprise who turned out to be right.