Nor on MN. In fact, things get denounced along partisan political lines so strongly that it's basically a filibuster. Makes it very hard to discuss things rationally.
Congress can't even pass a budget.The "problem" the article discusses is essentially "Congress isn't passing enough of the kind of legislation that my politics and ideology want them to be passing". This is not necessarily an actual problem. It's just something that the author holds a political opinion that it's a problem.
Congress can't even elect a speaker of the house who has their confidence. Not even the confidence of his own party. Congress can't work together while biting and devouring each other. The two are not compatible.
People retiring from Congress tell us that Congress is broken. They tell us that partisanship and polarization are leading to gridlock because people cannot agree on anything in order to work on it. So we have legislative gridlock - even for emergency funding. Special interests get what they want, they are very happy, but if you make a list of the things that are most important to average citizens, that's not on the agenda.
Often, the rhetoric is so toxic and divisive that there's no sense of people working together. The House of Representatives is not a team of people working together to solve America's problems. The whole media circuit encourages this, it's like the Worldwide Wrestling Foundation or something, and social media is a big part of that.
They are fundraising and campaigning every day, putting a LOT of their effort into that, more than they put into identifying and solving America's problems.
This is out of control. It's badly broken. And we fan the flames in the way we ourselves discuss these things. Social media tells them that this kind of dysfunction is precisely what we want, social media cheers them on.