There's no government that can solve for the problem of people who are at their core antisocial and want to conquer those around them. The rest need to be vigilant, and there's no utopia where people have to be so vigilant and suspicious of each others motives. Then when vigilence against evil wanes among the well-off happy types, when people start building bunkers instead of trying to fix anything, we get this impending collapse.

In the US, at least, good governance has been subverted, the political machine is bought, the free press is like a caged animal, and so on. The pillars of democracy have crumbled under the weight of kleptocracy.