Subject: Re: They need a new clean CR
Personally, I and my immediate family can wait out this shutdown until election day 2026 if that's how long it goes on for.

If the electorate wants to blame the Republicans more power to them, they can vote in a Democrat House and Senate. The Dems can remove the filibuster, pass whatever they want, including full amnesty from 20 million illegals, add Puerto Rico and Washington D.C. as states, tax the wazoo out of the evil billionaires, whatever.

A lot of people like air traffic controllers and military personnel will get fed up with not getting paid and will quit.

Perhaps many other essential government employees not being paid but having to work, will also quit.

Non-essentials on unpaid furlough will quit.

There will be a great deal of pain, perhaps an economic and political realignment, as people start to adjust to a new economy and a new society.

Maybe something good will come out of it. A steep recession may crash housing prices so people in their 20's and 30's who manage to hang on to their jobs may actually be able to buy homes. Especially if interest rates crash.

If there are fewer jobs available, maybe the notion of one parent being the primary breadwinner, while the other parent stays home doing family things and raising children, may start to make more sense to more people again.

Instead of 2,500+ houses being the minimum, maybe the default will return to 1,200 or so square foot houses. Cheaper and better for the environment.

Maybe a lot of people will conclude that they should not have placed so much reliance on the federal or local governments to take care of all their needs, in the first place.

Maybe society will grow to be far less tolerant of the grifters and moochers and LARPing Hamas loving college students and professors than they are right now.

Maybe if the ProGlibs actually have to ride those buses in urban areas that they heretofore would never be caught dead on, they might actually care when people get attacked by illegal immigrants shouting Allahu Akbar.

Their ProGlib privileges may diminish. They may have to face a little more reality.

And simultaneously, they will have a test-bed perfect case of whether a Communist running NYC can actually make things work better. Not for himself and his cronies, but for everyone. Let's see how the Commie does running NYC over the next year or so during a government shutdown.

People will get to see it for themselves. They will get to live it. Not just on social media, but in real life.

I see nothing bad about any of it, if it comes to pass.