All evidence to the contrary, I suppose. There’ve been 2 US treasury

Downgrades. There’ve been 2 debt ceiling standoffs threatening US default (all based on willingness to pay. Not even a little based on ability to pay), and the two occurred at exactly the same time. The two downgrades both prominently cited the brinksmanship. Correlation and causation very well established.

Which, thus far, only happens when repub lawmakers can use it to fuck with a dem president. When they hold Congress with a repub pres, there are no limits on spending. Or the debt required to pay for it.

Brinksmanship is a major part of the problem, and all three agencies would still have us at their top ratings if repubs never threatened to force a default. Particularly this time, it was pure, worthless political theater, given that everyone had entitlements and defense off the table, which means it was all for show. The actual budget itself can only be addressed by tackling those three bears.

The brinksmanship exacerbates our divisions, and only makes it less likely that the country will be able to find the difficult consensus to address those three factors. And the repubs are the only ones who do it, so, they get that blame. 100% of it.

Doesn’t mean dems will bring the solutions to these major issues - but the repubs have to end the worthless, theatrical brinksmanship before that effort can even really begin.

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