@aoc.bsky.social is correct both as a matter of political strategy and constitutional duty.
Cooperating with Republicans to bail them out of their own failures isn't fulfilling some higher duty to the people, it's empowering the wrong side in the most severe constitutional crisis of our lifetimes.
Cooperating with Republicans to bail them out of their own failures isn't fulfilling some higher duty to the people, it's empowering the wrong side in the most severe constitutional crisis of our lifetimes.
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Eric Michael Garcia
New: @aoc.bsky.social tells me that Democrats shouldn't bail out Republicans on a government shutdown without "incredibly substantial" concessions.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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I like your framing: it’s not fulfilling a duty to help them; quite the opposite.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/10/nation/trump-may-want-government-shutdown-last-months-or-years/
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/02/10/democrats-government-shutdown-column-00203440
Bottom line: if the govt is ILLEGALLY harming your constituents who no longer have voice in operation of the govt, that govt should cease to exist.
And for the love of God, stop talking about how little leverage they have!
Not one Democratic vote.
It’s time to let the Republicans crash and burn.
Republicans have been pulling the "you need to compromise with us" game for too damn long. It's time they learned how representative government *should* work.