A shutdown will be painful, but you know what's more painful?

[DSandra]

America being economically destroyed, most everyone left destitute and in misery and despair, with no hope of recovery, while the billionaires and the Christian Nationalists carve up the country to make their neo-feudalist, monarchical “Network States” and other authoritarian states while idea of the United States of America and what it stood for (freedom, liberties, pursuit of happiness) will become a faded memory, and everyone who’s not rich left with a life of destitution, powerlessness, and likely misery and despair.

[leftstreet]

1. Well, it's not like that wasn't happening before

sounds like stay-the-course to me

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. I agree with you! K&R. nt

[Think. Again.]

3. Not to mention the damage done to voter respect for the Dem party.

[durablend]

4. Yes

"They're all the same, see?"

"If Trump is so bad why are the Democrats helping? Why aren't they fighting him?

[Think. Again.]

5. Exactly.