I wrote a diary titled 'Riley and Brenner's astonishing piece in NLR" which got into an assessment of the current situation which hasn't received publicity. Rather, each political faction operates on a different level of delusion, and very few people believe in a reality-based radicalism which would actually change the situation if it could attain some level of critical mass.

So for instance you have "progressives" and "the Left". "The Left" believes that capitalism is going to last forever, so everyone should vote for Democrats because every once in awhile they claim to believe in something other than neoliberalism. This common "Left" belief has led reality-based radical David Rovics to believe that "the Left" is dead:

Perhaps there is enough evidence at this point for many people to believe that "the Left" was never alive in the first place. The current formation of "Left" neoliberalism dates back to the Eighties, and to the coalitions brought together in 1988 to make Michael Dukakis the Democratic Party's Presidential nominee. We've had 34 years to figure out who the "Left" neoliberals are. You'd think we'd know by now.

"The Right," on the other hand, believes in some version of nonsense based on anti-immigrant hysteria, anti-abortionism, right-libertarian (which is to say, capitalism uber alles) pomp, and conspiracy theories of various sorts. None of those beliefs are of much importance. They contributed to the election victory in 2016 of Donald Trump, who put three people in the Supreme Court, appointed a bunch of judges, lowered taxes for the super-rich, and didn't do a whole lot otherwise. (Next time you're with some Trumpies, ask them: what did he get you?) The anti-immigrant stuff dates back to chief deporter Barack Obama.

Political reality is more or less set by "political capitalism." Riley and Brenner:

This new electoral structure is related to the rise of a new regime of accumulation: let us call it political capitalism. Under political capitalism, raw political power, rather than productive investment, is the key determinant of the rate of return. This new form of accumulation is associated with a series of novel mechanisms of ‘politically constituted rip-off’...The rise of political capitalism has profoundly reconfigured politics. At the elite level, it is associated with vertiginous levels of campaign expenditure and open corruption on a vast scale.

Here's a hint: capitalism is not going to last forever. Rather, there will be a crash. I have no idea what your government will do, or whether it will be effective at all. To this point, US governments have relied upon dollar hegemony, and I'd imagine that dollar hegemony will go before capitalism goes. At any rate, I don't have any idea why the vast majority of Americans -- at this point -- appear to cling to meaningless political beliefs. They will all be taken by surprise.