You don't think that the culture war issues are manufactured to distract the masses from endless war, tax cuts, corporate subsidies, etc?
I think that the government has been sabotaged. Intentionally impairing it's functions to justify the critiques of functionally.
"I want to make the government small enough to drown in a tub"
"Government doesn't work, elect me and I'll prove it"(that one's a joke but conveys the point)
Only a small percentage of billionaires do incredibly valuable things, but those who do are doing things that I can't imagine the US government of today ever doing. The US government would be having meetings to schedule the meeting to discuss the meeting schedule, or fighting over culture war issues.