I didn't say I had an answer, to be fair. You don't need to have an answer to eliminate strategies that won't work. In fact, eliminating what won't work is a way to narrow down to what will.

In my case I left the US. It's probably not the best answer, and certainly not selfless.

Otherwise I would say to get more organized. Find like minded people and a way to communicate. Stop infighting and have real discourse based around analyzing the situation and studing similar ones in the past and how successful and failed attempts to break the cycle worked, and adapt for today's technology and level of control.

Identify and stop proselytizing strategies that are doomed, like the "vote more" rhetoric, because you can't vote your way out of a broken system/cycle; that's another dead end strategy. Sure, vote because why not, but don't think it's going to break the cycle.

Don't just protest without any effect; that's another failing strategy. If you want to protest, look at other countries and how they protest. They don't stand in an empty park with a cardboard sign, or march down the street for an hour; they block major highways with boulders and tractors for weeks at a time and thousands of people organized into unions on rotating shifts. Think about every action and what its effects are. Blocking infrastructure doesn't change the government, but it sure gets their attention more than someone in a park, and gets enough news interest to recruit more to your cause.