So only these 10 people were right?

[Martin Eden]

76. Does the majority of US citizens want the government to be shut down for a long extended period of time?

I very much doubt that. I think public pressure would mount in a manner that would far surpass the anger we've seen at town halls, to re-open our government.

In other words, I don't think the shut-down would last for an extended period. The question is how this would play out politically in terms of the BLAME GAME.

Generally, the administration in power gets blamed for what happens on its watch. A shut-down would be part and parcel of the chaos and deeply unpopular actions of the unelected Musk and his rats. If the Democrats have any messaging skills whatsoever they could reinforce that the CR (which really wasn't a Continuing Resolution at all) would give even more unconstitutional power to Musk for taking a chainsaw to our government.

If our elected Democrats can't effectively deliver that message, then our representative democracy is doomed no matter what.

If we can't make a stand on Constitutional principle then America will fall into tyranny at the hands of a vindictive malignant narcissist and his ketamine addled billionare megalomaniacal hatchet man.

Instead, a small fraction of Democrats in Congress gave in to extortion, ending the principled stand of the majority.

I don't know for certain if America is doomed now or was doomed no matter what our Senators did.

It's in our hands now, and the courts -- but the fundamental principle of those court cases has just been undermined by Congress willingly ceding its Constitutional power to a president who has been placed above the law.