Innocent people already suffer and were made to suffer. Were told they were going to suffer. And some people willingly went along with it. Special education was going to get harmed, and that harm was going to be passed onto the children. And people gleefully went along with it. My own family knew it would harm me and they did anyway.
If anything, I profoundly respect you for holding on to your humanity. I just don't think it is a strategy to move forward. But we will need you in the future when this is all over. Hopefully you won't get corrupted by our cynicism in the meantime.
The problem with your line of thinking is that it is emotional. You want to help because you have not walled off your humanity and empathy. We all want to be like that. Heck that is who we were to various degrees. But I am edumacated enough to know that people's dissonance ends when their world around them devolves. Their hungry bellies will make them long for the days of Bidenomics and Commiela Harris. You already noticed the pattern in most of these Leopards posts.
The only strategy that we (I am projecting here) see is for people to suffer until they can no longer deny it. That the poor and middle class who have been exploited by the super wealthy and politically connected must unite to demand change.
We are currently in a cold revolution. Our way of life and government has been hijacked by fascist elements from our society. We can comfortable go along with it, or we can act.
That MAGA is infighting isn't a material win. That people are getting harmed by the current fascist regime is a material loss. Giving them the power to harm more people is not a material win. Your need to recalibrate what matters and what doesn't matter.
I appreciate you trying to apply logic and reason. The failure of the Democratic Party thinking is that they can use the Republican votes against funding the ACA as a wedge issue in the next round of elections, as if people will remember who voted for what. How many times have we seen Republican politicians take credit for things they voted against, and barely any political pushback is observed or media attention is given? Too many to count.
An indefinite shutdown which would harm big business, would create the political pressure that Republicans would not be able to ignore. They jerked themselves off at the thought of starving families and uneducated children, and climaxed on special education being destroyed. But they cower in fear of their base losing share value.
Not it fucking doesn't. I have read enough history to understand that the message matters more than the truth in the short-term, and right now the messaging from the media and government websites and propaganda machine are largely in sync. The truth doesn't fucking matter.
Or if you watched the video or know anything about youtube, there are people that do shit like this as a job. Sometimes they stay in one star hotels, get a tattoo at a one star place, or travel around the world and share their experiences.
IAH and my return is from Ft. Lauderdale. to MIA and PBI were alternatives but I cannot imagine any of them being less of a shitshow. PBI would be the better alternative but for old people.