The real solution is how do you get the people being conned to recognize that they are being conned and quit voting for the people conning them. If there wasn't a payout (e.g. people being (re)elected), then it wouldn't be happening.
It's just that they believe that both sides are conning them, and they vote for the most appealing set of lies.
Americans are hopeful, it's our single greatest strength and the source of our most disastrous failings.
Meanwhile there's no coal mining company that's booming while others flounder. The whole industry is shrinking. It'd be more like if cell phones were becoming obsolete in favor of cranial implants or something, but you were still working on a social app for Android.