Since the media and intelligence agencies are great at vilifying any dissent (see "Capitol Riot" and how difficult it is for them to even get representation), there is no hope. The US is not going to get better as corruption is rampant and most are in the dark or powerless. Politicians like Bernie Sanders give hope, but they are few and far between, and muzzled. Perhaps the migration away from centralized news sources that are filtered by advertisers & intelligence agencies (see Manufacture of Consent) could help move us towards actually having information in the mainstream so that we can have a say, since our election system is rigged by the two right-wing parties, but there are too many decision makers still reading NYT and WSJ. Social media is clamping down on "fake news". The majority in the House/Senate are trying to push censorship for this reason, and now they are even trying to change the judicial branch to suit their whims.