The sequester fight just makes everyone look bad, and the American people are just plain TIRED and bored and beyond-annoyed of budgetary politics.
From my very cynical point of view, I like this. Since I reject government solutions, a situation where the population views politics and government as dysfunctional will lead them not to look to government for solutions to problems is the political situation I very much would like.You're not cynical enough. We live in a representative democracy where two parties have dominated throughout its history - they will continue looking for government solutions in all likelihood, and that solution will be to elect new politicians who are in all likelihood not all that different from those that they are replacing. Only a few will be replaced, so the dysfunction is not wiped away, and any new pols who might actually want to affect real change will be unable to do so.
