Republicans even have one branch of congress they bring the whole government to a stand still until they get concessions.

Republicans can do that because they don't care if the government shuts down. Imo their entire goal is to burn everything down, they're happy to do it.

But the Democrats do care. They don't want to shut down the government.

If democrats were as ravenous about left policies as the Republicans or nation would be a better place.

The difference is in what each party wants to do.

The GOP wants to stop progress. That's all they want to do, stop progress. By and large they are not trying to create and write and pass new complex legislation. They want to hit the big giant pause button on society. And they can do that with any one of the 3 houses. They can literally accomplish pretty much all their aims with 1 house, whereas the Dems need all 3 to do anything.

Or they want to simply repeal old legislation. They're not replacing it with newly created and labored over legislation, they're just straight out going to repeal all the legislation.

The Democrats want to pass things. When they get power they have to write that new, complex, excruciating detailed legislation. That's after they go out every single congressman to figure out how far they can go on bills. That's why the ACA was watered down, they needed Lieberman. And of course, all 3 houses to pass it.

In short: Progress and creation take real time, effort, hard work, and all three houses to pass it. Stagnation or regression requires fuck all.

Want progress? Then you need to give Dems consistent and overwhelming victories. Not 6 years every 44 years.