The GOP is consolidating its power in Red states by asserting control over elections, purging tens of millions of voters off the rolls, destroying public schools, and arresting Black voters and parading them before cameras in shackles.
Thom Hartmann
In very simple terms, the word "woke" means being aware of discrimination and social crises and wanting to repair them in order to make a more happy, loving, and egalitarian society.
This "debt ceiling" isn't a crisis. It is a plot: a cynical political and media strategy devised by Republicans in the 1970s, fine-tuned in the 1980s, and rolled out every time a Democrat is in the White House.
Lacking any core beliefs or principles other than obeisance to billionaires and the fossil fuel industry, the Republican Party has become one giant grift, and the USA is its mark.