I have some thoughts about this whole thing.
I consider it to be a fact that there is no discussion whatsoever of electing a government to govern at election time.
There is almost no discussion of why we want a government. It's us, joining together, to do our shared business. https://twitter.com/tribelaw/status/1353283260537827330

Listen to what Joe Biden is saying. Everybody is arguing about this abstract thing called Unity, but all Joe is saying is, Hey, y'all agree we want to stay alive, right?
Y'all need a roof over your head, right?
He's not saying "Oh I love your racism," because that not the point.

3. There are a lot of things that the Blackest living American and the Worst Living Nazi all need, like food, clothing, and lodging. We don't have to fight about those things - let's do them. Don't argue about who gets them. Americans get them. Next question.

4. Advertising agencies have invented phrases like, "Divided government prevents the worst excesses," and "I don't vote for the Party, I vote for the Candidate," both of which are unmitigated horseshit.
We are voting for the purpose of putting in place people to do the stuff

5. That has to be done by everyone for everyone. You can't build your own Interstate Highway System.
The mechanics of how we get stuff done under our Constitutional system - If you just read it from start to finish like it was an owners manual - is, Congress makes laws to do stuf

6. That's it.
Everything else in there - the Presidency, the Judiciary - is just to manage the machinery and to execute the laws the Congress makes.
Think before the Constitution. 1785, for instance.
Congress was the sole government entity.
All we had. Just a Congress.

7. The reason we made this Constitution was because the Congress could pass laws (say for instance to pay the Revolutionary War veterans) but the States, which were separate nations, didn't have to fund them. The nation couldn't tax the states, and the states didn't owe the vets.

8. Unpaid Revolutionary War vets were a big problem. They ran Congress out of Philadelphia one summer. Congress yelled at the Governor, "Stop them!"
The Governor said, "Pay them."
Congress couldn't tax the states. They ran for it.
That's why we've got DC. And national debt.

9. So they said, OK, we've got to wrap our Congress in some machinery to pay the bills and settle arguments.
Executive and Judicial Branches.
The Executive is not supposed to be the big dog.
Congress is.
But we don't run national campaigns to form national governments.

10. We piss around with whether Candidate Z for Congress from Zilch Gulch, MO, ran over her neighbor's dog because it shit in her flowers.
"What will Candidate Z do for me, personally, as a 73 year old half bald white guy?"
Wrong question. http://www.nopackagedeals.com/2017/08/14/negative-campaigning-the-death-of-democracy/

11. The argument we're not winning is, why do we have a government.
If we acted like we knew how this works and what it's for, assholes like Mitch McConnell could never get elected.
But the people who decide which topics will be discussed on the news do not choose to discuss that

12. I don't want to hear a single word about ratings and profits.
The people who benefit the most from the disfunction in our government control the topics of the public conversation regarding elections and politics. I don't want to play the conspiracy theory game. Who benefits?

13. The reason there weren't many Filibusters under FDR is because the people knew why they were voting, and they elected governments.
And if you don't have the knowledge, as a society, to do that, you can't solve your joint problems.