Assertion: u.s.'s government | /r/CapableOf | become confused
Facets:
value: during a shutdown
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: He writes, "No other political phenomena so forcefully and dramatically obliges the whole people to recognize that their ideological divisions have become so great that the exercise of their sovereignty has become virtually impossible," and "During a shutdown, the government, which is bound by elaborate mechanisms to the national will, becomes confused.