Well, I guess the alternative would be for Americans to become truly educated on the issues, to where they see the self defeating nature of their division, and reject it. For the foreseeable future, given the current roster of career politicians who have attained their positions of power through deliberately divisive and manipulative methodologies, continue to vote for the lesser of evils, with harm reduction in mind for as many of your fellow citizens as possible, while at the same time filling the bottom rungs with people that reflect your values better, and actually want to work for you, so that when the old guard retires, the folks who will replace them will be more aligned with doing their job, which is to represent the folks who vote for them, ahead of the companies that sponsor them.
As bad as things are, no one has a gun pointed to anyone's head, demanding ignorance or douchebaggery. That's a choice each and every one of you make. You could choose to reject the methodologies employed to keep you in line, constantly fighting each other so that government can do whatever they like while you're not looking. Or you could choose to continue to enable it, with the consequences as your only reward. As ****ed as things have gotten, the mechanisms to fix things still exist, buried deep in the machine that government has become. For now. Maybe instead of throwing your hands up, you should figure out how to use that machine to get what you need, as clearly it's only benefitting a miniscule minority of you.
You have to start moving towards that pie, my friend. The mistake most people make is in thinking that changing the world is anything other than a long game. At the end of the day, as history has consistently shown, the progressives always win. Yeah, sometimes things slip backwards, usually with devastating results, but ultimately the world moves forward, usually improving as it goes.