What we see in the article is the most healthy, highest functioning form of government -- disparate interests working through the system to resolve their interests. If the pervasive and infectious apathy your posts contains were more widespread, the whole system would break down, as one party dominates an apathetic counterpart. This is why they must fight, if not to promote the highest form of government, then to protect their homes.
That being said, not sure where ya live, so maybe it's different around there.
I live in one country of the Visegrad Four and our whole region is shifting to right wing populism with an unstoppable acceleration; if you mix this political climate with the resurgence of "wild capitalism" the end result is either hatred and fear or apathy on a massive scale.
I'm not sure if Trump is making America great - to me it seems that he's unchaining a capitalist machine and kicking Iustitia to the curb in the process, feigning stupidity and ignorance.
In the country I live in the ruling party is actively destroying high level education so that we may give even cheaper work force in the future to the foreign (mostly Chinese) companies (along with huge tax cuts) - we also have a program where we decrease unemployment by forced governmental employment (for something much much lower than the minimum wage), but the system is abused in a way that people are fired and then taken back to their original workplace for the lowest possible wage.
And my friends don't understand why I feel totally disgusted by politics and why I think politicians are worse than criminals.