It’s just another cycle of incompetence. We have seen this time and time again. One party gets power, does nothing, the people get pissed off and elect the other party which, likewise, does nothing. At best they do nothing. At worst they screw the American public to line their own pockets and the pockets of their cronies, all the time blaming the other party for not going along with their schemes.
True change to elections and the basics of how our Congress works needs to happen. No more career politicians. 2 terms for a Senator, 3 for a Representative and then no more public teat to suck on. Give them a “retirement” that is full pay and benefits for 2 years and then no more. Build an apartment complex for the Congress, all apartments identical, and make that where they have to stay in Washington DC. Assign apartments by lottery initially and once a position is assigned to an apartment, it is always that position’s apartment, regardless of who is filling that position. Audit every elected official and their staff every year. Make the audits public. Give all elected officials and their staff random drug tests and a failure is a removal from office with forfeiture of any future benefits. Make a rule that no bill proposed by Congress can be more than 100 pages long and cannot cover more than one topic.
So these things and you will likely stop getting the corruption we currently have, you will get people running that want to serve, and our dread of elections will decrease