It might be politics all the way down, but it's economics all the way up and the rip in this ship is that exponential debt. The interest on alone, just passed a trillion annually.

So no one party, with some list of agendas is going to solve that, before mere physics does. When the big tree falls, saplings grow up in its place.

When they do finally blow up the dollar, states and regions will start having to issue local currencies, then foreign policy is between Texas, California, etc.

The US is about as stable as the USSR was, in the late 80's.

Meanwhile we have the 12 year old boy and the 14 year old girl fighting over who gets to play captain. As the engine rooms fill with water and first class heads for the lifeboats with the cases of champagne.

The entire premise of America has been metastatic growth and we are reaching the edge of the petri dish.

Bacteria and modern economics operate on the same infinite growth formula. The problem is they crash, when they find the limits.

The advantage of multicellular organisms is being able to sense and navigate the surroundings.

As such, government is the nervous system, while money and banking are blood and the circulation system, of the social super organism.

As cells in this body, people resent the power of government and worship the promises of money. Which has given the banks all the power and the only real job the flunkies allowed in office have, is running up the debt the banks need to grow metastatically. The secret sauce of capitalism is public debt backing private wealth.

You can't have public government, without public banking as well;

https://publicbankinginstitute.org

Russia and China have effectively gone back to private government, with Putin and Xi as respective CEO's, specifically to keep their oligarchs in check. Which is why our oligarchs and their armies of moral prostitutes hate them so much.