Making your own bad analogy does not prove that a completely different analogy is bad.
If you're going to complain that China doesn't have stained glass windows and isn't a building made out of blocks of granite, then you've missed the point.
* Strong disagreement and polarization on a lot of important issues
* Constant arguing about the best way forward argue on how best to fix economic issues
* Many important problems are ignored, seemingly forever
Believing otherwise is vain provincial exceptionalism. The original comparison is superficial and bankrupt.