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The one thing putting the brakes on the far right in Australia is the fluke that we put compulsory voting into our constitution (it was an experiment at the time, I'm inclined to think it worked out). While we have, perhaps, more than our share of fucked up rabid racist assholes, they have to get over the hump of the majority of not shitty people, and so far it's failed to happen. The Overton window, neoliberals and Murdoch media have done significant damage but some sense of sanity prevails.
After your revolution you might consider it but I suggest Open Democracy (no elections, random selection yearly or so from the populace to form government bodies. Ala the original Athens democracy. Representative has shown itself to be not representative and easily corrupted, we should move on. )
We want a technocracy, randomly selected individuals picked to fill roles in government based on their area of expertise. If all education is free and accessible, nobody is at a disadvantage. The bar for expertise can be pretty low too, like x years of work experience or any post-secondary education. There will still be that 30% of the population, who would normally vote as right as possible, to fuck shit up. But the majority will actually rule. You can only serve once and are compensated fairly for the damage it will do to your career. Representative Democracy is a failed experiment.
Problem is there's maybe ten out of a few hundred million Americans I trust running agencies like the FDA or EPA, yoinking randos from some podunk town to legislate on the national scale is guaranteed to go down in flames.
I think we're just too big. Too much power is centralized at the federal level trying to balance interests that are too far removed. I think we should break up in ~6 smaller chunks with far more autonomy while maintaining EU style trade and travel so there's still a sense of cohesion.