Plenty of manipulators ready to prey on the uninformed. That will never change. An unfettered stock market is pure capitalism. you don't lose it all in one day if you don't sell. Just like your business if you had to sell it in 5 minutes you certainly would not realize the best price for you.
I find people spend more time saving a couple hundred bucks buying a car than the due understanding the investments they make.

Just call me Capt Obvious with that point. https://youtu.be/Am3FjwsNqXc

Will it be a currency collapse or an inability to obtain currency that will trigger the collapse? Right now, what would cause the most damage is a run on the banks - you could bet that would absolutely create all kinds of problems as people try to get back out what they have in their savings accounts when its all tied up in others' debts.

the stock market is just a system for trading paper expections of what the government can do to keep bubbles just getting bigger and bigger. Its all based on a very shaky US dollar which itself is based on nothing any more.

Stocks and the market provide the capital to run and grow the businesses. Image that no one traded Amazon stock because they all thought it would produce nothing.
Disclaimer: I’ve never owned Amazon stock

What is that based upon?

I tend to think that being in the stock market is a form of gambling, just like the various lotteries and Las Vegas gambling.

I agree with Ron Paul on many things too. A bigger concern than markets responding to politicians is just the amount of debt. The Fed gov't runs huge deficits. Part of the way it can borrow cheaply is the Fed Reserve buys the debt, and that only works because the dollar is such an esteemed reserve currency, which only happens because people have faith in the US gov'ts ability to tax and the ability of the people to keep producing value that can be taxed. If the gov't spent the money on a war during a recession, it could be good for the economy (not that war is worth it) because eventually there will be incentive to end the war and stop borrowing. We're borrowing for a global empire the world feels like it needs for basic security, a large prison system, and domestic programs that people have become dependent upon-- all stuff that's hard to shut off. They're already taxing half of what high-earners make. There's no political will to tax the average citizen, who pays almost no Fed income tax. On top of all that, Social Security is like a back-door debt to people who paid into it and reasonably expect to get benefits from it; and on top of that there's a lot of consumer debt. So we end up going from crisis to crisis. I think if they keep pushing it, we may see a crisis at a moment when Bitcoin is poised to put national bank currencies, even the USD, out of business. That might now be so bad because right now having a national bank is enabling the gov't's "debt abuse" problem.

I used to disagree on principal with Ron Paul in that I think fractional reserve banking is a good thing, really a beautiful thing where people put their money in the bank, which lends it out to the next person with a good idea to create wealth, and the money supply expands with all the good ideas out there to invest in. Ron Paul says even politicians who campaign on tight fiscal/monetary policy invariably want loose policy once in office. That's happening right now, making me start to change my mind. Maybe a central bank is great in theory, like the concept of a wise benevolent dictator, that is impractical.

I did not follow your observation the presidential election and the stock market, but in any case I think the connection is overstated. It's a noisy system, like the distribution of clouds or stars in the sky. Pareidolia makes us see patterns in the noise. In my world, it appears as "AWGN", but the random walk is everywhere. I do NOT dismiss the idea, though, that big elections can affect market psychology. I just think excessive debt is the huge elephant in the room and rational market participants are not fired up about politics.

tldr; Our open policy of living beyond our means, is a bigger problem than clandestine market manipulation.