Trade names with the Gulf and become the United States of Mexico.

One of my friends had this take on it:

Die Hard can’t be a Christmas movie because Die Hard is actually good.

Easy. High taxes on the rich and spend that money to give good universal social programs, and also avert climate catastrophe. The tiny fraction of rich people will disapprove but screw them anyways.

The hard part is getting the political will to do the obvious right thing when politics is controlled by the rich.