The question has been framed in the streets: is a government that impoverishes healthcare and nutrition, flouts the law, enriches its officials, imprisons babies, and kills its citizens worth the money it collects, much less the respect and obedience it demands?
Democrats have nothing to lose by shutting down the government to force the majority party to respond to these questions and the one that looms over all: what, if any, is the political and moral future of the US?
And yet progressives have hated Biden since always. The constant racism disguised as “gaffes from crazy uncle Joe-- he just doesnt understand that he’s flirting with KKK types” and his authoring civil asset forfeiture to pantomime some tough on crime shtick, and his money stream form AIPAC showed anyone that was paying attention that he was an absolute idiot. Sure some progressives votes for him in 2000 to get rid of trump, but that was because they had little choice in the matter. The “uncommitted” vote in 2024 in the dem primary was all progressives too.
Hillary lost because of the rage around her shanking Bernie in the primary. Kamala lost because she wouldnt disavow her support for genocide and flirting with right wingers to keep progressive voices down. if you want to distill that down to simply them being female and no other reason, I guess good luck with that-- live in whatever fantasy world you need to in order to keep from experiencing any cognitive dissonance. I’m beyond caring about other peoples accusations. This is a “you” problem.