Democrats Must Not Cave On The Shutdown

Democrats need to stay united in their focus on protecting Americans' healthcare access in their fight with Republicans to pass a CR. They must not cave to the usual threats.

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People are going to revolt if lawmakers do not do something about the cost of groceries and healthcare. It’s coming for Republicans, so long as Democrats manage to do their basic job of standing united for their values.

Democrats need to stay united in their focus on protecting Americans' healthcare access in their fight with Republicans to pass a CR. They must not cave to the usual threats.

The White House is reaching out to Democrats to help Republicans pass a CR because Republicans can’t do the hard work of passing an actual budget.

Yes, you are paying them to pass a budget, but in the last decade plus, this is too much work for them. They would much prefer to spend their time in office finding ways to lick Donald Trump’s boots and stab the American people in the budget back, and so they do because they can, thanks to gerrymandering and a base that is radicalized by an epistemic media bubble.

Republicans are apparently considering adding things to their CR that will make Democrats look bad in the midterms if they vote against them.

“With Congress about to take some huge votes on government funding, the White House has quietly been connecting with battleground House Democrats to see if they’d vote for the GOP’s Nov. 21 spending plan,” Punchbowl News reported Monday morning. There are even some Democrats considering voting yes on the stop-the-bleeding-with-a-dirty-rag approach to keeping the country running.

We all knew this would happen even as Trump was telling Republicans not to bother negotiating with Democrats, said not to feel sorry for Joe Biden in his battle with stage 4 cancer because he is a “vicious” person who was “vicious to his opponent” ( this must reference the fact that Joe Biden beat Trump, unlike the Democratic strategists who keep telling Democrats how to vote and what their messaging should be), and last night at the memorial for Kirk Trump said he “hated” his opponents.

Imagine for a moment if Barack Obama had told the world he hated George W Bush as Bush fought stage 4 cancer, and then told the world not to bother with Republicans and that he hated them. Just imagine that for a moment. Imagine the media freakouts and pearl-clutching.

The hypocrisy and lack of equally applied standards are tragic. Where are the questions to Republican lawmakers about whether they approve of this kind of rhetoric from the president?

Now imagine the Republican Party if Obama had attacked Bush as he fought cancer. Would they even consider not being a unified force against him?

Nonetheless, there’s a big problem with this approach, and it’s high time Democrats stopped falling for it: Republicans are going to lie about Democrats either way, and most of the country has no idea how people vote.

If people knew how legislators voted, Republicans wouldn’t be in power right now, because the majority of people do not want what Republicans stand for – including zero gun reform, no social safety net, killing children by pulling vaccines because some children get a fever after it, and killing grandparents for conspiracy theories and financial expediency, on and on it goes.

They are going to lie about Democrats and they are going to run on a fictionalized, embellished boogeyman issues of the moment, a caravan, immigrants eating cats and dogs, trans people somehow impacting children while they ignore gun violence being the number one killer of children in this country – they will LIE.

Democrats need to stop being manipulated by Republicans and their hold on traditional media; falling for it hasn’t worked and it won’t ever work on its own.