Michael Cohen - America Is Closed. Please Try Later.

Washington is about to turn off the lights, and the people holding the switch couldn’t care less. A government shutdown isn’t looming; it’s practically guaranteed. Trump skipped town for a golf tournament, Congress is on recess until the very day the shutdown begins, and no one seems in a rush to stop the clock from running out. The message to the American people is as clear as it is cruel: you’ll pay the price, not them.

Here’s the reality: a shutdown isn’t some symbolic squabble over “big government” or “small government.” It’s lost jobs. It’s families staring at their bills, wondering when the next paycheck will come. It’s federal workers furloughed, contractors frozen out, small businesses that rely on federal projects shuttered. And it’s not just bureaucrats in Washington; it’s waiters who won’t see tourist dollars because the national parks are closed, nurses who won’t get reimbursements because Medicaid funding is in limbo, and parents who can’t access childcare programs that depend on federal dollars. The dominoes are real.

Yet while Americans stand on the edge of the cliff, both parties are busy digging trenches. Democrats are holding the line on health care—Medicaid, Obamacare subsidies, protections against Trump’s arbitrary withholding of funds. Republicans, meanwhile, are content to let the whole house burn down rather than admit government should actually serve people. And Trump? He’s grinning from the golf cart, telling reporters: “If it has to shut down, it has to shut down.” Translation: the pain is yours, not his.

The cost here isn’t just economic. It’s institutional. Every shutdown chips away at the American experiment. Our tripartite system of checks and balances—the very thing that prevents authoritarianism—bleeds a little more each time government grinds to a halt. What happens when the public begins to accept shutdowns as the new normal? Chaos replaces governance. And guess who thrives in chaos? Autocrats, strongmen, cult leaders in red ties who convince their base that dysfunction is democracy.

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