You are familiar with the Articles of Confederation, and their abandonment? The Federalist-Anti-Federalist debate has been going on since the Revolutionary war

You are familiar with the Articles of Confederation, and their abandonment? The Federalist-Anti-Federalist debate has been going on since the Revolutionary war. It is neither a settled debate, nor is it without precedent. The branches of government do block and check each other's powers, and to assert otherwise is just false. The fact that the Federal government doesn't do what you want isn't a sign that the US system of government is broken. The fact that the government can't pass policies is a sign that US politics is broken (although i will grant that each branch of government has been complicit in this individually). But that's hardly collusion.