Of course Democrats and Republicans can’t agree enough to keep the government open. Democrats view government as a means of forcing unpopular, irrational ideology down people’s throats while turning the United States into a totalitarian international welfare state. Republicans are looking to return us to something resembling the original American idea of private property, freedom of association and freedom of thought. These two avenues are completely at odds and the impossibility of keeping the government open makes sense given the utterly irreconcilable differences.
If you still don’t think it’s time for some kind of a national divorce, then ask yourself how this situation can sustain itself, and how much worse a divorce might actually be than what we’re forced to watch right now.