You make an excellent point of past collapses.
It is my understanding, most empires collapsed when morality fell.
We have as a nation, arrived at a fallen morality.

All politicians (my guess 90%) are corrupt in some form, causing their own problems.
Did Trump cause his own problems, most were the constant attacks, aside from anything Trump did.

Agreed, but the deep diversity and divide began under Obama. Trumps presence and the lefts meltdowns after the 2016 election was a catalyst and it only took the presence of Trump, with help from the anti-trump media to make things worse

They were peaceful, but did charge capital police after being fired upon, injured.
You ignored my reply, video and audio police cams, proved the police incited the crowd

Here is the pdf link

https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:US:5ba09715-9be9-4d1d-a538-92ffe4b16e52

Honest question,
Which political man would you trust?
Which modern day president has not been found corrupted, morality in the ditch.
Kennedy had affairs among other findings (compared to today's democrats, Kennedy would be considered a compromising right wing extremist)
Nixon had Watergate
Clinton had affairs and a dozen other corruption events
Bushes, corrupt wars and much more corruption (globalists)
Obama, $ 400,000 per year, owned no large money making businesses, but has hundreds of millions in waterfront homes....we know he took or was paid untold millions, suspiciously for policies/agenda.
Trump, he has pulled some corrupt dozies with his businesses, some executed by his Vp's or managers but if he didn't know, he should have (the buck stops here. Stormy Daniel's, yep that was a bad one. However 12 women claimed sexual abuse/rape but then discovered their mortgages paid off, and/or recieved tens/hundred thousand plus to make false claims (what's true??) Biden, there is evidence (no conviction) like Trump of massive corruption.
To make my point, anyone chosen or voted for in congress/senate/presidential is or will be corrupt, there may be someone 100% clean background, cannot be corrupted, but then they are not running for office.
What's our choice? When the time comes to vote, it's not the voter in most cases being immoral with their voting choice, it is the voter choosing which immoral corrupt one will (hopefully) make choices that are in Americans best interest, will follow through with some or most policies they campaigned on.
Trump had policies I despised, don't personally care for him, do like over a hundred good polices....he wasn't a dictator, depending on party, seems the only answer is, the lessor of the evils in the world we live in.
I'll end this reply with, our leaders over the last 60-80 years, mostly the last , since Bush senior have driven America over a cliff and regardless whom takes office, cannot reverse the slow collapse to what I believe will become a fast collapse.

144000 hours prove false convictions and majority arrested, never entered the capital.

Right, had there been an actual court case, evidence, trial, it would have been televised 24/7 weeks/months before the trial, during the trial, and ever since the trial.
Which media would be 24/7 covering the trial? Depends on what experts had predicted the outcome.
Had evidence been looked at as a winning outcome, Newsmax, OAN 24/7 or a loss CNN,MSN 24/7 but one-sided would be mostly silent, except to spin.
Just one problem, there were zero court cases.
Fact check, Mike Lindell a millionaire, but was dirt poor to be able to fight his case, he would have lost every cent, as the opposing party drained him.

Your right, gas prices are dependent on geography. Such as California, Washington state, because of greedy taxes.

Farmers in America sold nearly 80% of soybeans to the highest bidder, China. As a result, America is/has running out of soybean oil. That flavored creamer Americans love so much taste different, because they had to use a vegetable oil instead of the original recipe calling for soybean oil.
Corn crops were down, but again China is filling their warehouses to the tops and Americans left with coming expanded Shortages.
To-date, our warehouses (food) are near empty.
Who negotiates the sell (price) of American agriculture/cattle to China? Our government and who is in charge of our government? The Biden Administration

Who told you fact checkers are reliable?
I'm shocked the NY times (left biased) wrote this.

https://nypost.com/2021/12/14/facebook-admits-the-truth-fact-checks-are-really-just-lefty-opinion/

And this

https://www.heritage.org/progressivism/commentary/fact-check-fact-checkers-falsely-claim-they-are-fact-checkers

Another

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2016/12/22/the-daily-mail-snopes-story-and-fact-checking-the-fact-checkers/

I was being kind suggesting alternative news, these often bust fact checkers and as I stated, Mainstream media be it, left or right do lie and lie often, also state "fact checked" only later to learn, the fact check site they used, never actually fact checked but only did a cursory biased check.

America for the greater part used the ten commandments as a moral guide.
Fast forward today, the newer generation's, follow an individual moral standard, not a herd moral standard.

Vote early and by mail and OFTEN

Watching Fox, OAN, NEWS MAX, then CNN, MSN, ABC,NBC,CBS and deciding the truth is kinda what I used to do, but extremely unreliable, because of personal bias.
Looking at alternative news that more often than not, reports on specific issues or events and often quotes from the horses mouth, (unedited) audio/video, government sites using statistics the mainstream media ignores to spin a (believable) narrative.
Example; economic, food Shortages, live farmers interviews about the tens of millions fowl/cattle/pigs culled for disease but never tested for disease and farmers paid over market prices, in the war (Biden Administration) against farmers/ranchers, in the name of green houses cases.
Not a peep in mainstream media, or at best a 20 second "Chickens found with bird flu culled for public safety" without conformation, investigation, just passing on what is written in their script.
You want facts, turn off propaganda TV news and begin finding alternative news.
FYI; Alternative news, does not equal conspiracy theories, but when put out in discussions, sure sounds like it, since mainstream has its own narratives and often the truth is just to unbelievable.

Had no money gone to Zelensky, Crimea goes to Russia and a peace deal agreement.
Biden pushed for war and declined every opportunities to make peace.

The same minds like that of activist Margaret Sanger, opened abortion clinics in black neighborhoods (none found in white populations) and quoted "for the removal of blacks " (paraphrased)