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Today, our nation is going through a time of institutional upheaval in which every fissure becomes a great chasm. The federal budget impasse has gone beyond a simple legislative procedure; it heralds the potential collapse of the federal state—an internal fragmentation that jeopardizes our republican system. Nearly four million federal civil servants, including two million military personnel, are facing a salary freeze. Each day of paralysis leads to widespread economic turmoil, resulting in overdue rent, defaulted bank loans, and strained families. Meanwhile, the state, hitherto a guarantee of social and economic stability, is becoming a source of insecurity itself. The…
