With regard to Washington, this quickly devolves into a semantical discussion about what "broken" means. The observation is that it is working as intended, an o

With regard to Washington, this quickly devolves into a semantical discussion about what "broken" means. The observation is that it is working as intended, an outcome that is perpetuated by both parties pandering to everyone that it is broken and they can fix it. That doesn't mean it ISN'T broken, that proves that it is. Correct, it is a selective evolution that works the way selective evolution works. But it doesn't cross the threshold of egalitarian representative democracy where the representatives get to express the will of the people they represent, which is what the masses of people it represents mean by "its broken".