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Originally Posted by Caged Great
The reason why Obama and the democrats can't cave on this is due to the precedent it sets. There have been 17 prior shut downs and each of them was due to trying to figure out the difference in the budget that each side wanted.
The difference this time is that the Republicans are wanting to scrap a law. What's to say that next time that they don't hold the country hostage to get rid of the EPA, or until they ban abortion, or any of a hundred different things that the republicans don't like.
The Dems need to do exactly nothing. The tea party hold over the house needs to be eliminated and people that actually want the best for the government need to be brought in instead.
Don't get me wrong, I want republicans to have legitimate representation in the government and to be sane. The problem is that these tea party nut jobs are wanting to destroy the government in it's entirety and that is not good for a democracy. This is the type of thing that happened in other places in history before democracy goes away entirely replaced by a not so good authoritarian regime. This fever needs to be broken now.
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Other historical signs of authoritarianism rising are governments running up insurmountable debts, contracting its overseas commitments, and turning a suspicious eye on its own population. So its a good thing that at least this isn't happening right now
