C’mon Democrats: Zero Votes For Fascism

*“But screw your courage to the sticking place and we’ll not fail.”*

I do realize that calling on the Congressional Democrats to actually do something substantive to prevent the fascist-dictator-ization of the United States is kinda a long shot; it’s never worked yet.

But they’re what we have.

You go into a fascist coup with the opposition party you have, after all, not the opposition party you’d like to have.

So as we go into the least-effective partial government shutdown in U.S. history, it’s important that we keep pointing out to them that No Government Is Better Than A Bad Government.

Let me repeat that in bold text: No Government Is Better Than A Bad Government.

Seriously, this is important: No Government Is Better Than A Bad Government.

You all really need to stop acting like this is just politics-as-usual; the genteel back-and-forth of civilized debate.

This is not that.

This is the nearly complete takeover of the federal government of one of the planet’s most powerful nations by a cadre of genuinely dedicated acolytes of an aspiring fascist dictator with an increasingly bad case of senile dementia.

Now is the time a for scorched-earth, Sherman-in-Atlanta, response to anything that supports the coup.

(A level of response that could have been avoided by more strenuous opposition over the past year. Just a note for the next time this comes up.)