Do the reading. Think a bit. Perhaps do some independent research; further reading, additional thinking. It has been said that, particularly in a society similar to this one, government becomes the government deserved. Take the time and energy to take action, in accord with the dictates of conscience. Too often in this society -- sometimes for good reason but more often with poor excuse if any -- too many leave the obligations of citizenship, the participation part of a participatory democratic republic, to "the other guy", resulting in too little of what needs done being done at all, let alone well.
The real coinage of a society, its real "wealth", has two sides: Responsibility and Freedom. The more one has of the one, the more of the other; the less one has of one side, the less of the other.
Every individual in The United States of America has the opportunity to, in this sense at least, be very rich and to enrich others as well...if that is the path they choose to take. That is key to The Great Experiment [and perhaps why so many feel so much of that is at terrible risk, on the verge of being lost]. Take action: do it now.