New Yorker writer finds the Cajun Navy troubling

americanthinker.com ^ | 9/5/2017 | Thomas Lifson

[ripnbang]

Actually, it’s part of FEMAs National Preparedness Goal related to community resilience. It’s called the “Whole Community” and it was actually promoted during the Obama administration. It emphasizes the importance of all citizens, private sector and public sector to work together in preparedness efforts to be more resilient.

[mass55th]

I take it he’s never watched “Swamp People.” For them, it’s all about helping your neighbors when they need it, because at some point, you might need help too. Sounds like Mr. Hyphenated never heard of The Golden Rule. They used to teach it in grammar school when I was a kid: “Do unto others, as you would have them do unto you.” (Matt. 7:12).

[rktman]

Watch Swamp People? Srsly? He’d probably rather be mugged by the kkk.

[batterycommander]

I notice that this or similar hyphenation exists among Mexicans. Does the “child” elect the hyphenated name he/she accepts?

[mass55th]

I think Troy should use Mr. Hyphenated on his bait lines, but then the gators might turn their noses up at him.

[Albion Wilde]

The article quoted the New York writer as saying, "There is a cyclic pattern to the erosion of faith in government, in which politics saps the state's capacity to protect people, and so people put their trust in other institutions (churches; self-organizing volunteer navies), and are more inclined to support anti-government politics. The stories of the storm and the navies exist on a libertarian skeleton. Through them, a particular idea of how society might be organized is coming into view."

Which, like most progressivism, is an EXACTLY BACKWARDS view of the history of American society. Churches and "self-organizing volunteer" organizations were the backbone of social response up until the latter part of the 20th century and the rise of the social welfare state. They were not "coming into view"; they have been fading from view under decades of feckless liberalism until large disasters strike. Then they rise from the human heart through the ashes.

[onedoug]

Usually the name of a married woman reflecting the husband’s, though there really is no use of “W” in Spanish.

[Oztrich Boy]

Everybody here is terminally stupid. Read the New Yorker article. The Writer is praising and celebrating the idea of individuals organising in response to disaster

here were hundreds of families like the Bells, who felt that they owed their safety not to the distant forces of government but to a neighbor who had put himself at risk to help them. There was a social elegance in the idea that working-class families were rescued by working-class heroes in boats,

[rktman]

🤔. Well, if I were you, I would dismiss all of us. 👹

[T-Bone Texan]

Simply put, these people would gladly oversee the deaths of us and our children, and they would dance on our graves.

Am I the only one here hoping for the Civil War to begin sooner rather that later?

Because if it begins later, we will lose, and our Nation will be lost forever.

[batterycommander]

New Yawkers are always nervous when Johhny Rebs gather to help each other.