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We should start a betting pool to see how badly they fuck up trying to force a shut down without having a single well-communicated and widely accepted policy demand, trying to play the cautious middle, and wrapped in 37 layers of "We have to play the political game they hand us to even hope of making small incremental change to the massive steamrolling happening right now."
FFS, demand a $15 minimum wage, legalized weed, and better ACA subsidies. No American not working in the WH will balk at that.
The idiots will wheedle and whine before demanding UBI and national ACA coverage and garner exactly zero support.
The Democrats are structurally incapable of making any of those demands, except for legalized weed, as that does not improve the material economic conditions of the 99%.
Anything that improves material economic conditions of the 99% are policies that are violently opposed by their donor class, and the donor class always wins.
It would release thousands of people from Federal prisons on BS drug charges, mostly people of color, and create agricultural jobs. Legalizing weed has been shown to be a huge economic net benefit every time it's been studied.