There were no good options with the choices that the Democrats had in the Senate on the CR, that wasn't the point. [View all]

[JohnSJ]

The base was looking for some actual UNIFED push back from the Democrats in Congress against this authoritative regime, and they failed miserably.

All they had to do was show that they were tired of the lawless abusive administration, and they couldn't even do that.

What would have happened if the government shut down?

People affected would start screaming.

Would that have moved the rethugs in Congress to work with the Democrats? Probably not, but what it would have done is got the attention of the public that something very wrong was happening.

We should have been following the example of the Civil Rights movement.

If Rosa Parks had moved to the back of the bus when told to sit in the "back of the bus", or African Americans didn't sit at segregated lunch counters, etc. does anyone really believe that the Civil Rights abuses would have stopped on their own?

The problem isn't that there was no good options, the problem was we didn't demonstrate that we were willing to fight, and that is pathetic, to give up before you even start.

Even if they only did it for a few days, in those few days they could have gotten out and explained to the public why this was being done.

There will be a price for this, just as there was a price for those who refused to vote for VP Harris on November 5.

Just saying that we are doing this because it will hurt people more if we didn't, doesn't cut it. Maybe it is time that a few people are affected by this so they understand the abusiveness that the cult they call the republican party is doing