The issue is about government corruption, centralization, power/control, and ultimate complacency and general failure. The elected officials do not really have any specialized knowledge (maybe some do but overall it is greatly lacking), are susceptible to greed and corruption, and they spend their time arguing (excuse me, debating) about rules that go into a book of which most of the officials do not really understand. They also sound like school children when they engage in this process.
Let's face it, we need a new government architecture.
I honestly think governments should be formed on a distributed system where scientists, doctors, engineers, teachers, lawyers, and anybody else can participate. Sure, there would be many clusters of these decentralized 'states' and the sovereignty of them would play out and cause other issues... but those are issues for our great grandchildren.
Right now we are faced with a corrupt, incompetent, powerful, centralized, complacent, lazy government that has all the control and is out of control.