If this is true than this country is screwed because the only way to avoid the ruin my future children or more likely my grandchildren will inherit is by a repudiation of some of the essential aspects of American-style capitalism.
The irony is that American capitalism helped make this the most prosperous nation on Earth. Even distributed unevenly, the mean wage is far more than most who have ever lived have known. Even the vast majority of our poor have higher living standards than most through history.
Plainly put, no other system has created so much broad-based improvement in the standard of living in the history of mankind.
Compare and contrast with any all out socialist system, save for the hybrid known as China with Hong Kong, whose capitalist prosperity has buoyed China's economy since it reverted back. Every other who did not have that advantage has caused abject poverty - but equal abject poverty (unless you were a leader in the party).
I don't know if you're looking for central control of the economy, but that would be a disaster.
That said, some "socialist" policies that provide for the general welfare are and could be a wise investment to one degree or another.
The problem in America is that people are against anything that doesn't benefit themselves and for anything that does except when they are again anything.
Either way, you'd need someone with intelligence and charisma to rally people behind even the most basic socialist ideas. Obama was the closest there has been to that (since at least Clinton and probably all the way back to FDR) and even he failed at convincing people to support his crowning achievement. Lying tends to alienate people (if you like it you can keep it). And before racism (a very real problem) is brought up, racism didn't make him lie. He'd have been better off telling people "Sure, your insurance is bound to change either way but we will make it better - and better with time".
But I digress...so I'll just say that I'm not sure just exactly what you think of capitalism vs socialism as far as central control of the economy goes so if you aren't for central control then my point may be irrelevant.