Maybe we're just not meant to progress any further? Maybe we're just an evolutionary deadend. Maybe capitalism has held back innovation so bad that we can't innovate our way out of this corrupt system we have now. Certainly nothing is going to change in Amerika in the next 4 years because we are going to lack leadership.
If history is any indicator I imagine the US has hit its peak as all cultures eventually do and then they start to decline as we spread ourselves too thin. Too much money leaving the country because of fake wars and a fake financial system. And rich people are very mobile so it really does no good to tax them any more because they'll just move to a country that benefits them. Middle class Amerika has been in decline for over 40 years as all the good jobs left the country and inflation kept rolling along.