The Divide of the ideal and governance in the real world

The last 6 years has seen a double failure in the USA.
One failure is understandable and forgivable even if history has proven the error.
The other failure is one of stubborn arrogance, and UNFORGIVABLE.
The Progressive ideal which I regard as utopian (thus doomed to failure, no matter what) will ALWAYS exert a pull on humanity AND IT SHOULD because the heart of its idea is to make total the care we each give each other (thru the govt) for all. When we help our neighbor shovel, instead we make the govt the AGENT for this unselfish care. It ‘s a nice idea, but even in this simple example it’s obvious where this event goes haywire sideways because it is implemented by human beings who are not just weak, but TERRIBLY weak.
AS WE ALL ARE.
We NEED, however, people who remind us constantly that since individuals cannot possibly care for all, SOME AGENT must exist to help those who cannot help themselves, need help and deserve (our individual) help.
The second failure though is the BIG ONE. When the desire to implement the ideal above becomes the END, and justifies means, we have total failure to govern.
The best interpretation (without regard for whether it is the FACT or not) is that since failure to attain the Progressive ideal is certain, we have governance which is incompetent and an ever escalating cycle of blame.
By putting aside all ideals for what can be practically achieved from time to time (not even all the time) we end up with programs like Obamacare whose success is a matter only of tortuous logic, and a series of implementation delays targeted to just after election days?
By serially ignoring practical solutions which then MUST ENGAGE the opposition as SUPPORT we set a pattern of oppositional defiance based on previous failure.
We can say whatever we want about whether R’s would cooperate on this or that, but when we see the INCREDIBLE entropy in foreign affairs (a lot of which is OBVIOUSLY ‘chickenshit’ self-errors, or could have been prevented or minimized) and hunch our shoulders worrying over tomorrow, then look to domestic programs and realities where in NH 71% of new jobs went to both legal (FINE but really?) and ILLEGAL immigrants, and the decay in real worth of Americans during the ENTIRETY of this admin (not just at it outset, which would have been understandable), how is it possible to NOT say that the BULK of these failures lie at the feet of a governance which has insisted IT IS THE RIGHT WAY TO DEAL WITH REALITY?
A governance which is thus, a failure. IPSO FACTO.
So today I hope most Americans will pull the R lever within limits, with a big fat HUGE caveat for the R’s if they get 51+.
You had better have a clue.
You had better have a coherent PRACTICAL idea set.
You had better see compromise to DEAL with a stubborn and arrogant president.
If we see over the next 26 months a series of stupid, avoidable confrontations, culminating in the inevitable constitutional crises, which occur when one equal branch faces off against another, the American people are going to be looking for other solutions, or become so cynical they stop caring.
When the USSR died there was an iconic saying among the people which reflects this kind of loss of faith.
"We pretend to work, and they pretend to pay us."
Nothing happens, we have faith that nothing WILL happen, works ends, we go to sleep, and the sun rises for us to repeat.

Is that the future?