Trying to undermine Congress is unAmerican

Although the percentage of voters who tell pollsters they blame the Republicans for the government shutdown has fallen slightly, it still remains more than 10 pts. higher than the percentage who blame Democrats. I think we Democrats need to make a new point about this. The Shutdown is not just cruel and being used as a weapon against poor working people and the truly needy, it is being used to undermine democracy. The Trump regime is perfectly happy to cut out Congress, the Artticle I branch... the main branch... of government entirely, and rule by decree. This is profoundly unAmerican. And this needs to be thrown in their face. In fact, it relates to what's before the Supreme Court rather neatly: if there is one thing the founders of our country would never have approved, it's giving unlimited powers of taxation, which were specifically delegated to Congress, to the would-be king. This was the principal issue in the American Revolution, and in the 17th century English Civil War, for that matter. How little we know or learn from our history. (Note that it seemed that none of the justices disagreed with Neal Katyal's first three words in argument: "Tariffs are taxes." ) This point, and the profoundly unAmerican act trying to exclude Congress from policy making, needs to be hammered home. We can't just assume people are too stupid or ignorant to understand. It's not hard to see, right now, that the regime is trying to arrogate all power to itself. And even people who don't think about politics much don't like it. 

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Silence is complicity. Americans who believe in democracy MUST RESIST. 

"If the freedom of speech is taken away-- then dumb and silent, we may be led like sheep to the slaughter."

                       --George Washington, 1783