From what I'm watching, the populations seeking change are doing their damnedest to work their way through the system. I don't see many strong, rallying powers remotely influential enough to invoke such massive change. Political engagement seems relatively low, never mind satisfaction. Maybe I'm just naive, but the system I see in place allows for change given a motivated population. My biggest hope out of 2016 was seeing peers riled up enough to give a damn about polls rather than watching 2017 roll around, and hear them cry about the president while not voting as a form of protest (makes absolutely no sense to me).

The system is much harder to work without an engaged population, but where we stand now it's just as rough as is. Even so, I believe Americans are still a bit comfortable in their situation. Nothing is so absolutely vicing that it's dividing Americans from sea to sea into two major factions willing to separate entirely - if anything, they are smaller factions without the resolve to go so far. The nebulous rhetoric of what America stands for rings a bit too clear here for anyone to seem to want otherwise.