John, you are preaching to the choir.
The single biggest thing that perpetuates the problems created in Washington DC is the propaganda machine of the democrats known as the media.
Their assignment this month is to blame the Republicans, TEA party, and Ted Cruz, while deflecting anything that looks too closely at Obama’s, Reid’s and the democrats’ role in all this mess.
An objective, non-partisan look/coverage would change everything and end the intransigence being played by those who “refuse to negotiate”.
The other point is the democrats and Obama very much WANTED this shutdown to occur, as they thought they could repeat the coverage that supposedly stuck that the democratic media did for them in 1995—blaming the Republicans.
It’s all political
The “old msm” that is.