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?
But the Democrats insist that it wasn’t working, so naturally we have to let the fascist murdering Republicans do whatever the fuck they want!
We gave them the presidency and Congress and the Supreme Court, indirectly. The voters, that is.