I find it interesting how far Democrats are willing to go to get their way. They are willing to alienate the military personnel and federal workers who won’t get paid during the shutdown. Those workers have always been the Democrats biggest supporters. They are also willing to alienate those getting federal benefits who they pressured into voting for them by telling them that Republicans would cut their benefits if they got in power in order to retain their votes. They are now willing to throw away that support by refusing to approve the budget just to get the subsidies to insurance companies extended. Democrats thought they could win in 2016 by smearing Donald Trump with false accusations but underestimated voter rejection of Obama’s policies They were able to win in 2020 amid widespread evidence of voter irregularities but they never allowed the irregularities to be investigated and redid the 2020 Census to allow millions of illegal immigrants to be counted. It switched eight seats in the House from conservative States to liberal States but voters so rejected Biden’s policies that it wasn’t enough to win control of the House. They thought they could win in 2024 with a bait and switch play pushing Biden then suddenly switching to Harris. They knew long before the election that Biden was not capable of serving another term, but hid it from voters. However Biden was able to get the needed electoral votes to win the nomination because his name was the only name allowed on the Democrat primary ballot in many States. When he dropped out, Harris was nominated even though she was never on any ballots and received no votes, completely cutting Democrat voters out of the primary election. Yet they still thought they could get enough votes to win. But again they underestimated the American voters. Now they are alienating their three most powerful support groups to benefit insurance companies but it will not benefit consumers. Yet they feel thy can still win the 2028 election. They are either very stupid or very sure they can rig the 2028 election so they will win it.