>I primarily blame Democrats

For the millionth time:

In the US, our democracy is purposely built to give the minority party almost zero power. If you have less than half the votes in both houses, you can't do anything, full stop.

Go look at how often Democrats have actually won votes. Americans choose not to vote for democrats and then blame them for not having power.

It's ignorance.

Republicans have run this country for 90% of the past 50 years. The public institutions failing have been purposely meant to fail by purposeful sabotage by republican politicians, who openly describe their tactics and publicly boast about "starve the beast", and people STILL blame democrats.

It takes way more time, effort, and public goodwill to build up or reform US government institutions, by design than it takes to tear everything down.

If you are still blaming democrats, you are part of the problem. Blame the politicians who have been voted in, democratically given the reigns of power, and have used that power for 50 or more years to make things worse.

Add to that, republicans have held the majority of State governments for the past 20 years.

It's utterly INSANE the lengths people will go, the stupid rhetorical lies they will tell themselves just to not have to say "The republicans have actively harmed this country for 50 years"

The US system intentionally does not give the minority party any power.