If the GOP truly attempt to shut down the government before full implementation of ACA provisions...

[Gravitycollapse]

I hope they understand that shit is going to get real. Not just uncomfortable.

Fucking real. Realer than they could possibly imagine in those pea brains of theirs. There will be recalls. There will be protests. There may even be violence.

And all of the blame for these things will lay at the feet of the GOP. These fuckers are playing with fire. They better expect a few burns.

[Kelvin Mace]

1. They want fire

They want a conflagration.

They want another civil war.

[Agnosticsherbet]

2. There will also be hunger and economic disaster for those of us that receive paychecks/

retirement checks/Medicare checks from the government.

The shit is real, yes, but the hardship will also be real.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

3. Define "get real." The sequester turned out to be a big yawn.

[Gravitycollapse]

4. This will be much more direct. People will notice they are being screwed.

[Lancero]

9. We've been screwed time and time again...

Yet people, including a lot here at DU, are content to defend the big red white and blue dick that's being both crammed down their throats and shoved up their asses.

[Scuba]

7. For you maybe, not for a lot of folks.

[11 Bravo]

11. I see, because it doesn't affect you nobody else should give a shit?

Mitt Romney couldn't have said it any better. By the way, I know people who are suffering as a result of sequestration.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

12. I came no where close to making a statement about what people

should or shouldn't do. I do not understand people's mania for assuming observation = endorsement.

All I did was note the political zeitgeist shows that there was no general outrage over the effects of the sequester. Consider, as a contrast, the outrage of possible military action in Syria. There were promises of no boots on the ground, just limited strikes and yet the howling against it was legendary. Not so with the sequester.

[LuvNewcastle]

5. It's been building up to that for a while. Just a matter of time.

[Politicalboi]

6. Good to know we have all those private prisons

To put the protesters in.

Maybe this IS just what they want.

[IronLionZion]

8. Are the GOP going to feel the pain?

the unfortunate truth is many in the government will continue to work without pay because their services are too essential to be stopped. No stoppage of things like law enforcement, border patrol, military, hospitals, and air traffic control. It remains to be seen what happens with medicare and social security.

As with all of these sorts of things, PR/propaganda will decide who is blamed and how long it would last. Make the GOP as a party feel the pain, and they will think twice about using these sorts of extortion again. Many individual tea party politicians don't even expect to stay in office very long, let alone care about any political consequences.

[1-Old-Man]

10. We don't rise up when our children are shot down in the schools, when our Government spies on us,

We do nothing about a predatory upper class, we don't rise up to combat fascism at home, we don't say a word as poverty spreads upwards. We're certainly not going to rise up over the Affordable Care Act or a few days of closing of a Government that half of the governed have come to despise.