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Americas government is far from perfect, but it worked relatively well until 2009 when Republicans raison dêtre became neutering the legally elected government at all costs to punish the electorate for choosing an African American man as President. Throughout the Presidents tenure, Republicans fabricated one phony debt crisis after another to cripple the governments ability to operate and keep the economy stagnating regardless the damage to the people. In fact, it is safe to say obstructing governance, and democracy, has been the Republicans only goal for four straight years.
Now that the government is due to run out of operating funds and hit its debt limit, Republicans have created another crisis over funding the government, paying the nations debt, and a three year-old health law they claim is an existential threat to the nation. However, the looming threat of a government shutdown and credit default Republicans promise are not about spending, debt and deficit, or even the Affordable Care Act; it is about ending the nations representative democracy and ushering in fascism and rule by oligarchy.
After the 2008 election Republicans acted as if they won control of Congress and the White House, and attempted to thwart President Obama and Democrats attempt to govern the nation. They have persisted in that vein throughout the Presidents tenure and it drove credit rating agency S&P to downgrade Americas credit because Republican political brinkmanship had shown evidence of Americas governance and policymaking becoming less stable, less effective, and less predictable. When Republicans revealed their ransom demands to raise the debt ceiling on Wednesday, they exposed their disregard for democracy and revealed their only goal is fundamentally transforming the way America is governed; even if they have to decimate the economy to achieve their goal.
http://www.politicususa.com/2013/09/27/republican-fascists-stop-representative-democracy.html
I think the only thing that will stop those fascist are criminal charges, both against the kochroaches, et al. "donor class" and the teabagger stooges.