I was just telling my best friend that I think this shutdown is going to go on for six to eight months. Possibly to the point where the pot boils over and the government gets thrown away because it was closed for so long.

At least, one can dream that after months of bitter pain and suffering, we might possibly get people who care about others running a government. But that’s a whole hell of a serving of pain and suffering before we get there.

Fuck it, let’s general strike this place. Medicare for all with the govt reopen and all those critical services back or nothing ever happens again.

the government gets thrown away because it was closed for so long.

Is that a real possibility? How does that actually work? Is there a new election triggered automatically if the government was shut down for 6-8 months?

If not, you will most likely be waiting and hoping forever, all the while things just keep getting worse.

Is that written into laws? No. But you know who made the original government? People who decided to make their own shit.

We have more information and better access to new decisions. We can simply decide to start over collectively and start once again. We don’t have to do things because that’s the way they have always been (in our individual lifetime).

Surely, my ideology will rise from the ashes!

These are the vibes I’m getting

I will accept literally any other ideology before fascism. A monarch, a communist dictatorship, a tyranny of the majority, pre-fascist crony capitalism, futarchist prediction markets, primitivist tribes, machine rule, you name it. Go nuts. The bad ideas we haven’t tried might not end up with secret police disappearing people.