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The GOP expected Democrats to relent on the shutdown by now. That isn't happening.
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I was just telling my best friend that I think this shutdown is going to go on for six to eight months. Possibly to the point where the pot boils over and the government gets thrown away because it was closed for so long.
At least, one can dream that after months of bitter pain and suffering, we might possibly get people who care about others running a government. But that’s a whole hell of a serving of pain and suffering before we get there.
Fuck it, let’s general strike this place. Medicare for all with the govt reopen and all those critical services back or nothing ever happens again.
Lovely notion, but realistically... who is going to do the "throwing away?" There's no system above our government. We don't have a deal with Britain that they'll come back if we can't manage our country. There's no real such thing as law above a nation.
Instead we have thousands of aspiring political leaders on both sides who will see ANY vacancy of power as an opportunity. They're jockeying right now like Mad Max behind the scenes, but instead of tricked out cars with spikes, it's committees, delegations and policy wonkery to get prepared for the midterms which are still a year away.
I am only saying all this because you and your friend's sentiment is common and needs to be adjusted... Nobody is coming.
I guess you missed the whole last paragraph I mentioned where we can do a general strike and start helping ourselves. But sure, whatever you say bub.
But your entire last paragraph, on the practicality and realism spectrum, ranks just a bit lower than "worthless, idle wishful thinking".
It's no more or less serious than if you'd said we should all just join together in song and force aliens to show up to fix all our problems.