We don’t, though.

Our electoral system is just fucked six ways from Sunday, our campaign process is luridly corrupt and pay-to-play, the “upper” half of our federal legislature is explicitly designed to be anti-democratic while the “lower” half has been artificially capped to make per-capita representation wildly unequal depending on which state you’re talking about, half of our political establishment wants to kill anyone with darker skin than an Irishman just returning from a vacation in the south of France, and the other half couldn’t fight its way out of a paper bag (and, to wit, was fully shocked that they lost with a pitch of “nothing will change” to a national zeitgeist of “the status quo is absolutely fucked”).