“What the Democrats are trying to do is not to end the shutdown for its own sake, but to break the…”
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What the Democrats are trying to do is not to end the shutdown for its own sake, but to break the cycle of crises governance, where they are constantly being asked to make absurd concessions merely to keep the government operating…
To put it in parent/child terms, if you have a boy who throws a lot of tantrums, your problem isn’t the particular tantrum he is throwing right now, but the fact that he throws tantrums whenever he doesn’t get what he wants. When you bargain with the child, you ensure that he will continue the behavior in the future because it is effective.
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– Why Face-Saving Won’t Work, booman (Martin Longman)
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Tags: government shutdown, hostage-taking in lieu of governance.
