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Yes, because this circus was never intended to function with "factional" (read: party) politics, and we've spent the past 250 years trying to back-fill those cracks. The country was founded on a document that leaned on the premise that the US ruling class was de facto one big political party with aligned interests, but this assumption immediately falls apart as soon as the country needs to start actually internally developing and different interest groups reveal themselves. Even if you go all the way back to the beginning our elections are a spectacle and clown show, trying to ape participation at all levels of the republic (All levels being all the white propertied men) while making sure the levers of power are just out of reach of actual democratic accountability.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZQhIj2ZHlY&list=PLIJDXp0xoqReqRfEjk8LRKaQCn9pzFoKb&index=13
^ Hell of Presidents: Bonus Episode 5 - Vote Yourself a Pod ^