Explanation of what is going on
Welcome to "democracy". Enjoy your citizenship :/
As long as I keep getting paid, it's all good. Lol!
Well I guess it explains itself. If people want to have a functional democracy, they'll have to take their political responsabilities and quit thinking "It's all good as long as I'm paid". And when I say taking responsabilities I mean thinking, debating, considering solutions and applying them locally... not just voting every 4/5 years for some big fucked up political party because their leader haz a cool smile and he looks nice.
People have to rewrite their constitution. They have to make it so the "democracy" applies, defending themselves against power abuse and law exploit, they'll have to destroy the republican/democrate (left/right) absurdity. Actual voting system is retarded anyway, better pick governments randomly instead of electing careerist fucks.
Political parties are profit-making entities, they're not here to save the world and its people. They're here to pay themselves, when one of them hits the president chair it's jackpot, but there's objectively nothing he can do for you, for us. For them it's just a game, none of them will starve to death or sleep outside, for them "it's okay as long as they get paid". They don't give a shit about you or your family, just like most people don't give a shit about the dude living in the next street.
What the word "democracy" means, it's that the power, decision making, has to come from the people, anyone and everyone. Or else it's just not a democracy.
To be honest, I have no idea what exactly is going on in the USA atm, nor how exactly budget works. Would you mind explaining it shortly?