The Wretched of the Earth

[Contrary1]

This blogger doesn't know when to start a new paragraph. I figure what I posted should be about four. Anyway, it's a good read.

"...The United States of America is a different country today, a primeval, feral, Neanderthal nation without civility or civilization or simple human decency. We are the worst we have to offer. We are a nation of rich cynics shocked by our own barbarism, waiting for our turn at the chopping block. What's worse, this could all have been prevented. Simple, logical organization of all available manpower to help those who could not help themselves - the moral purpose of federal power in a modern industrialized liberal democracy - could have saved lives: organized removal of the poor and homeless days ago, when Category One Katrina introduced itself to Florida, or food and supply airdrops over New Orleans after the levies broke - anything but abandonment. Fuck 20/20 hindsight! No American citizen can today believe that the federal government can or would help them if their homes, livelihoods, and utilities are destroyed by actions outside their control. None of us. No American citizen can today believe that their country can do for them when they cannot do for themselves. Given this, what is the point of doing anything for our country? Why volunteer to fight an unjust, illegal, commercial war, when your fellow citizens can't be rescued from heavy rains, high winds, and their own bodily wastes? What's the point of voting when the guy the minority voted for bungles both foreign policy and domestic health in such cataclysmic fashion?To all Republicans: why give a damn about illegal immigration when the society the impoverished illegal aliens claw and scratch and steal their way into refuses to save it's weakest and neediest from natural calamity and public anarchy? What's the national character of a country that reduces those without capital to those without voice, those without help, those without life?"

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