IIRC, you're 1982, right. The system has always been flawed. You vote in '00? Remember that show and the fallout? I think this is a different world if Gore won instead of that head Bush. I don't know the solution other than to keep voting for the "less flawed" parts of the system so we can at least minimize the damage. And here's the rub, you have 50 percent of the "other side," in all age groups, thinking that voting in people like Trump minimizes the damage relative to their worldview. So what's the solution?
I honestly think the US needs to return to some kind of hard states rights framework. For example, California and Nebraska just have two different cultures and mentalities that require different political systems (i.e. Bernie won California). This country is too vast and too culturally different for the E Plurbis Unum ideal to really flourish, sad to say.