I'd actually say that the chaos of the system is one of the biggest arguments for it: the sheer bureaucratic inefficiency of it all keeps a lot of stupid shit from getting through. And even when the entire thing is deadlocked or even shut down wholesale, that really doesn't mean anything to anyone who isn't a slave to their gibs. Military and police actually ignore government shutdowns and just keep doing their thing, and the banks still fill out their checks in good faith that the government will get around to moving the money on their end.
If things are gridlocked, it means that they're not getting worse.
Counterpoint: you know what happens when the budget gets gridlocked?
You had a serious warning last time that shit went down. And if a president has both chambers against him they can even go ahead and pass deliberately bad budgets. You think the dems wouldn't have the balls to do it? I assure you they would!
And this ain't just something that affects the gibbs goblins. Over here in spanish when Vox pulled that shit with Andalusia's budget we almost had a hospital collapse as a result and over there while you don't have public healthcare you use gibs to maintain agriculture, your civilian fleet, the army, the postal office, the energy grid and indeed due to dependance on obamacare gibs you might have a private healthcare collapse anyway.
And hell while we're at it just look at the debt ceiling... That shit ain't gonna rise forever you know. No this is no exaggeration. The more debt you got the higher the interest rates, there is a point past which if that shit keeps rising you'll be mathematically unable to pay the interests and enter a debt crisis, that shit can destroy an economy, and actually the USA has already entered the line at which the only reason you don't have a debt crisis is China keeps stupidly buying your debt so confidence is high enough to keep interests lower than they would otherwise be.
Now imagine for a second a president with the chambers against him gets handed a deliberately bad budget designed to wreck confidence...
Yeah that would crash the economy, then and there, unilateraly, you'd be staring at a total breakdown of infrastructure that would bankrupt a substantial amount of your business on the first week alone. And which is likely to be impossible to fix without either destroying the delaware loophole, which good luck passing that, hitting the money printer, in which case say hi to weimar germany on your way to fascism, or torpedoing your debt by just denying it, in which case get ready to get sanctioned so hard you're gonna look like Francoist Spain. And we still haven't recovered from that.
I'd say your founding fathers forgot to take into account just how absolutely insane a party could get... But actually I'd be wrong. They knew. And that's precisely why washington opposed the formation of parties to begin with. But no one listened to him and now we're here, and he was right, and oh god I sure hope you don't get a demonstration of how right he was for at least a few more years.
Draw your last pathetic card, Trump.
Guilliani's deck has no pathetic cards, Biden. But it does have Dixie, the forbidden one!
