We have to try harder to understand what's going on about us and then to explain it and to try to formulate solutions or at least approaches to the problem. Many Americans are frustrated with the democratic process. I share that frustration. It takes so much effort to move the process along toward a solution. The path is often shady and bumpy, the collisions are frequent, and policy gets trimmed along the way.
Nothing ever seems to be finally settled.
Issues become battles, fought once, fought twice, fought many times, and never permanently settled. This system of ours doesn't move easily. Some of the founding fathers, I believe, sought to fashion a government for inaction, and in many ways they succeeded. On thousands of occasions I've wrestled with the question of how much to compromise and accommodate. Some people deplore those processes but without their exercise the country wouldn't work.