This Shutdown Isn’t About “The Budget.” It’s About Power.

The government shutdown we’re living through right now is not some complicated fiscal puzzle. It’s not about balancing a checkbook. It’s not about “responsibility.” It’s about power — specifically, who the government serves.

On one side, we have lawmakers trying to protect and expand healthcare access, food assistance, education funding, environmental protections, and the basic social supports that allow ordinary people to live with dignity.

On the other side, we have the same old coalition of corporate-backed Republicans and MAGA hardliners who insist that the government is “too big” — unless we’re talking about the police, the border enforcement machine, or the military-industrial complex. Those budgets never get cut. Those budgets always grow. There is always money for new weapons, drones, surveillance tools, and prisons.

Just not for medication, childcare, clean water, or housing.

Funny how that works.

They Didn’t Shut Down the Government to Save Money

If Republicans were actually worried about spending, they’d be looking at:

  • The Pentagon’s black-budget slush funds
  • The billions handed to private defense contractors every year
  • Corporate tax loopholes that let billionaires pay less than teachers

But no. They’re demanding cuts to:

  • Healthcare subsidies
  • Community programs
  • Working-class support systems
  • Food assistance
  • And environmental protections

The things everyday people rely on.

Cuts for us. Endless funding for the things that control us.

This Is Designed to Make People Desperate

When you take away healthcare and assistance, you create:

  • Workers who are sick but can’t afford to stop working
  • Families forced into impossible choices
  • People who become easier to control because their survival depends on their employer

It’s not incompetence.
It’s not misunderstanding.
It's economic discipline applied to the public — for the benefit of the wealthy.

Healthcare Is a Human Right — Not a Bargaining Chip

The United States is the wealthiest country in world history, yet we still force people to go into medical debt, bankrupt themselves over prescriptions, and ration their insulin like it’s 1912. Meanwhile, every other developed country has figured out universal coverage.

We favor single-payer healthcare because:

  • It is simpler
  • It is cheaper
  • It treats healthcare as a right, not a marketplace
  • It prevents corporations from deciding who gets to live comfortably and who doesn’t

But those at the top profit from sickness.
They profit from desperation.
They profit when we are too overwhelmed to fight back.

The Shutdown Is a Symptom

The real disease is the belief that government is supposed to serve:

  • The wealthy
  • Corporations
  • Police agencies
  • Military contractors

Instead of the people.

We reject that.

Government Should Serve the Public

A government that actually works for us would:

  • Guarantee healthcare
  • Fully fund public education
  • Protect workers instead of punishing them
  • Tax corporations and billionaires fairly
  • Reduce the power of corporate lobbyists
  • Invest in communities instead of policing them into silence

That’s not radical.
That’s basic civilization.

What’s radical is forcing millions to suffer so that billionaires can collect another yacht.

The Shutdown Will End. The Struggle Won’t.

Eventually, a deal will be made. A bill will pass. Workers will get paid again.

But the question remains:

Who does the government serve?

We say:

  • The people.
  • The workers.
  • The poor.
  • The sick.
  • The vulnerable.
  • The everyday human beings who actually keep society functioning.

Not the rich.
Not the corporations.
Not the professional oppressors.

This is our stance.
And we’re not moving.

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