The Founding Fathers deliberately designed our system of government so as to create all kinds of checks and balances, with one of the core objectives being the limitation of government power.

So, gridlock, as is occurring right now with respect to the C.R. impasse, is a feature, not a bug.

When enough constituencies feel enough pain they will presumably petition their elected representatives for redress of grievances vociferously enough to where the impasse is broken.

That's how the system works, that's how it was designed, that's how it's supposed to work. That's democracy with a capital "D."

Assuming the majority (perhaps the vast majority) of non-military government employees who are furloughed without pay, or working without pay, or otherwise negatively impacted by the impasse, are liberals or Democrats--well, they have a decision to make. Do they want to let King Schumer and the Dem Senate Kings continue to play politics with their paychecks to get "leverage" over the Republicans--or do they want their paychecks to resume?

The Virginia elected spoke loud and clear when it elected Spanberger Governor by a wide margin. Many of those Dem voters work in the D.C. area and are government employees. They are more than capable of communicating what they want their politicans to do for them, at the ballot box, and otherwise.

Apparently, all those democrat government workers remain content to not get paid because they agree with King Schumer's "leverage" strategy of keeping the government shut down, so they can point the finger at Trump and the congressional republicans.

So be it. That's real democracy in action.