Government Shutdown

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One quarter of the federal government has been shut down for a record-breaking 25 days and counting.

Here's a pretty good explanation of the causes and ramifications.

I'll likely write more about this in the coming weeks, but for now, I'm simply disgusted and disillusioned. 

No other advanced country has "government shutdowns." If they did, we would be flabbergasted at how callous those governments were towards their own public servants and citizens. Pulling on that thread a little, here's a piece about the 2013 shutdown that describes "American events using the tropes and tone normally employed by the American media to describe events in other countries".