No, the hierarchy supported by violence will still exist (they’ll call them ‘essential’ and exempt from the shutdown), citizens will just have even less representation in how it’s run

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0gmsfr3

3 minute scene from planet earth series with seals chasing a great white shark away

Or if you’re a senator

It’s not a legal black hole, it’s illegal according to the constitution, and senators should be going there to take pictures and video to show the public what actually happens there.

FUD: increase fear, uncertainty, and doubt by spreading misinformation propaganda and undermining independent, fact based journalism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt

It’s the same tactic far right conservatives used against popular public progressive movements like the enlightenment, the hippies, corporate monopolies like IBM and Microsoft against open source, etc to divide the working class against themselves.

I’ve already had more than one conversation where people quote AI as if it were a source, like quoting google as a source. When I showed them how it can sometimes lie and explain it’s not a primary source for anything I just get that blank stare like I have two heads.