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Why Democrats criticize Schumer if his vote is to prevent a shutdown? (lemmy.world)

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He expressed that a shutdown will favor Trump and Musk, so sounds reasonable?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Steelman's Argument: why are they celebrating? Because that's the ideal play for them to concentrate their power and capitalize on the situation.

They may privately have celebrated if the Dems shut down the government, but been publicly outraged so their base knows that it's time for more hate.

Honestly the short-term anxiety in me is glad that Trump didn't have to deal with a federal government where he could tell all the non-essential employees to go home and not come back, and have less resistance to plundering the USA.

The long term anxiety is like, is this like Chekoslovakia in 1938 or whenever and is fighting in the streets already a foregone conclusion?

And the short term anxiety is like fuck they're going to use this post to find out I support opposing the government. Then the cynical part is like "they already know". But then it's like they might have the evidence, but they haven't searched through it yet to identify all dissidents.

I wish I could think straight about all this in a way that led me to action rather than paralysis.