Some people are so negative:
BUT IT SURE WOULD BE NICE IF WE HAD A CONGRESS OR GOVERNMENT THAT WORKED
What? We have the world’s oldest representative government. We have the world’s largest peaceful borders. We filled a continent from coast to coast with the world’s first multi-cultural people believing and fighting for common goals under a single banner. We are orders of magnitude larger than every other representative government in existence.
Our government has proven itself fair and capable on a scale unmatched around the world. The USSR, China, India, Japan and the EU are all similar in scale. India is involved in monthly skirmishes with its minorities and nearest neighbor that could escalate into nuclear exchange; China is authoritarian and has a terrible human right’s record; the USSR collapsed under its own flaws, poverty and corruption; Japan is only half the size of the US and mono-cultural and -ethnic to the point of obscenity… The EU has the only (decreasing) chance of overcoming its secretarian nature and dragging its people kicking and screaming into success similar to the US.
I agree that things are not perfect here in the US. There is much we must do better–and we will do better. But to imply that things are broken is absurd.