If government was actually broken, then there would not have been all the recent MMJ busts.
I would actually enjoy a broken federal government, one which could not affect many laws nor do anything other than the most basic of functions. That is what the founders intended and is why they set up the 3 branches in the way they did. They made one fool choice though, they forgot that putting a single man as a leader would require a moral and righteous person in order to lead us to success. Over the years we the people have become so dumbed down, ambivalent to our representatives decisions, and apathetic to the ever shittier quality of life that we are unable to discern a quality leader from a scoundrel. We reap what we sow and we have been on that path for more than 2 generations now.