Democrats are winning the shutdown fight in the court of public opinion because they aren’t holding out for some abstract principle or unreasonable demand. Instead, they are fighting to keep millions of people from seeing their health insurance premiums skyrocket as Affordable Care Act subsidies expire.
Republicans could have avoided this fight if they had extended the subsidies earlier this year. The longer the shutdown drags on, the more foolish they look for opposing something so popular and necessary. (MSNBC)
The more you know. The more you know, the more you realize this shutdown is less about you owning the Dems, but more so about how the Republicans seem to be owning you. The more you actually stop listening to FOX and their right-wing propagandists, and the more you actually start looking at your own lives, and just how much more expensive your lives have gotten…not only the price of groceries, but the price to try and stay healthy!
Not only does the “main street press” but also the local red state and red city newspapers provide the actual facts about your health costs, and how the Republicans want to make living more expensive, the more you may actually begin to realize who is on your side, and who is actually your enemy. The more you realize that when it comes to affordable health care, you have become that dreaded OTHER!
