It’s not hard to understand why many Americans are bored by the government shutdown battle now underway in Washington, D.C. They’ve seen it many times before, and they know it never amounts to much in the end. So why pay rapt attention and get all agitated about it?

in one particular way — for what it says about the continued, apparently inexorable expansion of government, and how it happens.

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