Every few years, Washington stages the same tired play. The countdown clock ticks, headlines scream “shutdown,” and politicians shuffle in front of cameras to tell us how catastrophic it will be if Leviathan doesn’t get its money on time.
This is theater and it’s theater that Leviathan thrives on.
Shutdowns are not accidents. They are the inevitable byproduct of a system where the federal government has seized control over every aspect of American life. When Washington controls your healthcare, your school system, your energy, your paycheck, and even your gas stove, then every budget fight becomes existential. If one side “wins,” the other doesn’t just lose a policy argument—they lose control over the lives of millions of people.
That’s why the stakes are always ratcheted up to the level of crisis. That’s why partisan politics is no longer about negotiation but about annihilation. When Leviathan sits in the middle, feeding on trillions of dollars, every skirmish becomes a zero-sum battle over who gets to wield the machine.
And make no mistake: Leviathan loves this.
A looming shutdown lets the bureaucracy parade its power—closing parks, delaying benefits, threatening mass furloughs—to remind the public just how dependent they are on Washington.
Politicians posture on cable news while the permanent state quietly goes about its business, untouched, unfazed, and often rewarded with even bigger budgets once the dust settles.
The media amplifies the fear, warning of “chaos” if Leviathan isn’t fed on schedule.
Shutdowns are supposed to frighten you into submission. They’re designed to remind Americans that life without Leviathan is unthinkable. That’s the lesson the ruling class wants hammered home: you can’t live without us.
But here’s the reality: the more Leviathan consumes, the more frequent and destructive these shutdown battles become. We no longer fight over principles. We fight over slices of Leviathan’s carcass. We no longer argue about the proper scope of government—we argue about who gets to run the machine that already controls us all which is absurd and insane.
The answer isn’t to negotiate better. It isn’t to “win the shutdown” or “message harder.” The answer is to shrink Leviathan until its collapse no longer threatens the nation. When the federal government controls less of your life, the stakes shrink. The fights de-escalate. The zero-sum game ends.
Until then, shutdowns will keep coming. They are not bugs in the system. They are features of Leviathan’s design. Manufactured crises that fuel partisan rage, justify Leviathan’s existence, and leave the American people trapped in a cycle of dependency and fear.
If you want to stop the shutdown circus, stop feeding the beast.
That’s why maybe, just maybe, this time around we might see something meaningful come out of this shutdown. Why? Because of Russ Vought, the head of the Office of Management and Budget who intends to slash and cut, permanently, wasteful programs and potentially hundreds of thousands of bureaucratic positions. If he succeeds at some of the levels being discussed, it could perhaps be the beginning of the end of Leviathan and the first steps towards the restoration of the Republic.
It's tiresome and disgusting but this is Exactly what democrats want. Instead of selling the American dream to our Young they are brainwashing them to be LAZY and rely on the government. Each and every year the Government controls a little more of everyone's lives. If you think socialism works, you just need to look at the citizens of socialist countries where the leaders are wealthy and the citizens are begging in the streets for whatever they can get. This isn't what our founder father's fought so hard for. They are rolling over in their graves.
🙌🤞🙌🤞Here’s to the beginning of the end of the permanent bureaucratic state!!