They've already took both houses of Congress, in case you haven't noticed.
Perhaps it is you that are living in the past.
There is always a disconnect between Congress and the White House. People put a lot more into learning about the president than they do about Congress. If they did it equally we wouldn't have a Congressional approval rating that hovers around 10%.
I'm not living in the past. It's the truth. If they keep running 70 year old candidates who are about 6 seconds from having a coronary they aren't going to win the white house.
We pay a lot for this insurance - often with long hours and/or unusual hours, a lot of hard work and even more BS.
So do a lot of people. My colleagues at my previous job spend months on the road away from their families making about what a driver would make in a year, and they pay up the butt for insurance, out of pocket. UPS is different in a lot of aspects. But we don't have the market cornered on hard work and BS.