The collapse of America is on purpose.
If it's not for total collapse it's to wear out the citizens into submitting. Eventually some fake person will come to save the day, probably masked as whatever focus groups of young people say they want in a president. This should all be obvious, but people still get caught in the manicured marketing naration and dramatic theater that exists almost exclusively to keep people from truth and the reality at hand.
And the citizens will fall for it as always... Fuckers are barely human anymore.