Burt was so angry over the 2013 government shutdown that he refused to ever vote again.
I disagreed with his conclusion, but understood the reasoning. He felt it was a huge disruption.
The ACA prompted the Rs to stop work for those 16 days. We seem to have a similar excuse– health care– this time around. I know it was bigger then and it’s certainly bigger now.
I shared Burt’s disappointment in such blatant dysfunction. I never let that disenfranchise me. Burt last vote was for Obama. Just as well, he would have taken the first term trump win personally and would have felt slighted had he gone to the polls in 2016.
Later, in 2020, after dx, before the Biden inauguration, he got to yell his answer to the dementia question “fucking Trump.” It amused the ER, but I question the use of Who’s the President as a way to determine cognition. Did he know the answer was Biden in later visits? I can’t recall.
this is our life 