This cartoon from The Seattle Times illustrates how America's economic pizza is actually sliced per capita, highlighting the massive disparity between the Top 1%, the merely wealthy, the upper middle class, and the lower 50%.
You just have to realize the monopolies and how widespread they are. If you break the nation apart and make it several smaller countries then some will become like the old US and other countries will thrive. At the very least, we could go somewhere and have our own laws and way of life.