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They aren't going to be able to hang this on Biden. Everyone can see how fucked up the GOP is.
No, I think the worst part is that I don't believe there is any end in sight. I could seriously imagine a scenario where the House is completely non-functional until the next fucking election. I'm not sure what that looks like, but I also can't imagine them being able to compromise - it's just when and if either side blinks.
I wish it was that simple, but even if that latest poll from NYT that shows Trump ahead in key battleground states winds up being wrong, it at least indicates that too many people still don't see how fucked up the GOP is. It should not be at all close, at this point.
The general public is clearly still painfully stupid and uninformed, and I hope that volunteer grassroots efforts can overcome it enough next year to avoid fascism.
There is no end, it will become exponentially worse as the years go by. This is politics now and forever.
I'm not talking just "politics is a disaster." I'm talking about a House that is literally paralyzed and can't pass or approve a single thing. That would certainly end in the next election, but is it even possible for a shutdown to go that long? I have to assume not but I don't know how this gets resolved.
Its unprecedented, right? At least in the USA. We just don't know what would happen, but its definitely not going to be good. The question is would the damage done be enough to send our country into death throws?