Sorry, I’ve always agreed with pretty much everything you’ve posted but I fundamentally disagree with this assessment. Mitch McConnell has hijacked the Senate to fundamentally break our political processes and exposed the fundamental flaws in its structure.
The fundamental concept driving democratic government is what engineers call “feedback in the loop” - the ability of applying forces to counteract behaviours the majority don’t agree with. When used to control aircraft autopilots, screwing up the feedback loops can lead to “pilot-induced oscillation” that can destroy the plane, breaking the feedback loop in democracy can have the same effect.
Through the abuse of their power over the past couple of years the Senate has left the majority of the population with the belief that their votes don’t matter. Now, after the entire Republican side of the Senate refused to convict him of clear abuses of his office the so-called President has escalated this and is telling us he won’t leave, and not one Republican speaks up clearly to condemn this.
So, it’s time to accept that the hardware is broken and we need an upgrade. We can start with some work-around patches to get things running again, but I would caution against thinking that we can patch our way out of this. Rewriting the COBOL program won’t get us a functioning democracy again…