I really, really think we've become a Domino's pizza, wrap it all up in a 30 minute sitcom nation. We're all expert second guessers and Monday Morning quarterbacks who don't throw interceptions. It's just getting old.
The world is a tough place. Good people work hard to keep the train on the rails, but nature and sh*t happen. People who we are told are in survival mode have deemed it necessary to horde plasma televisions and Randy Moss Jerseys and shoot at National Guardsmen and snipe outside of hospitals.
We have a poor, thug-worshipping underclass who mostly can't swim and for whatver reason there were no air conditioned busses to get them out of NO before the storm came. The Democrat machine that makes sure they all get to the polls in style on election day didn't show up to take them out of the city.
So we have many, many people who believe in terrible Republican corporate conspiracies and feel that they are blameless in all circumstances are stuck in a natural disaster zone. Rather than being helpful in their rescue, many have thwarted the rescuers. You figure it out, I can't.
They chose to exploit the situation and further stress the strained first responders. I suppose this thing hasn't gone particularly well because the Feds and the locals didn't sufficiently factor in the staggering dysfuntion of the people who couldn't flee the storm.
Wow. Your post eloquently sums up what I have been feeling over the past couple of days.