The question has been framed in the streets: is a government that impoverishes healthcare and nutrition, flouts the law, enriches its officials, imprisons babies, and kills its citizens worth the money it collects, much less the respect and obedience it demands?
Democrats have nothing to lose by shutting down the government to force the majority party to respond to these questions and the one that looms over all: what, if any, is the political and moral future of the US?
The Democrats faux concerned the air traffic controllers not working and not being paid, to kowtow to the Republicans in the last shutdown. The Dems had its members “break rank” who happened to be politicians, whose election won’t be coming soon or are retiring. The Democrats will pull the same manipulative tactics. They won’t be in this game for so long if they are not that devious.
What’s the “faux concern”? Have you given any thought at all to what it would mean if air traffic controllers weren’t working?
You know how Lemmy loves to bring up the trolley problem? Furloughing air traffic controllers for couple of weeks is less bad, than the effects of cutting Medicare to millions, and giving funds to ICE to brutalise America’s own citizens, which are far more consequential and far reaching, and will be felt by an entire society for generations to come.