A story right up there in significance like Melania’s shoes.
Does hyphenation imply faggotry?
Hmmm, wasn’t it big government Brits that ran the Acadians out of Canada to French Louisiana?
This Cajun feels sorry that the poor writer has to live in such a cesspool of losers.
We await NYC getting flooded from “global warming sea rise” and look forward to the killing and looting that will assuredly follow.
I always get Remnick mixed up with the son of crazy Susan Sontag. Anyway, the reason volunteers like the Cajun Navy are needed is because they move quickly and without red tape. The lack of common sense among our elites makes them unfit to lead or participate in any conversation on how our country should be run.
New Yorker...... not American
Why does America need Benjamin Wallace-Wells, or the “New Yorker?”
America, and particularly its elites, survive and thrive in a system with a nanny-state government run by massive debt in a fiat, printed currency, from which they can skim and support their cronies.
It won’t last
How long before some democrat proposes a law banning any non-government group from providing disaster assistance?
Cordially,
The Cajuns and Flyover America
More likely, it implies his mother was a feminist and he was raised in accordance with her values and view of life.
So yeah, maybe... but at the very least a "sensitive" young man who is a global warming snowflake.
But "Obama-style" organizing, like Antifa protests, are okay.
It is evidently a bad thing that people put their trust in churches and the volunteer enterprises like the Cajun Navy, because they sap resources and trust that naturally belongs to The State.
I posted this last Thursday to the Hurricane Harvey Live Thread:
ABC13 KTRK had a live shot this morning from a local church where the neighbors who got flooded out of their homes broke into the church (on high ground) and turned it into a makeshift shelter. There were about 20 families (75 people) who camped out there overnight. One woman stepped up and said she'd take the blame because her disabled brother needed to get out of the storm.I think church reach-out is an idea, but I would suggest that since the George W Bush administration, there has been a systematic attack on "faith-based services." Many of the so-called "soup kitchens" were shut down by liberals over fears of subjecting the poor to proselytizing, religious hospitals were losing funding over "church-state" separation, parochial schools were losing enrollments, etc.
I can't imagine what the outcry would be if a liberal Democrat mayor suggested church solutions. Don't get me wrong... Houston is a very religious city, but I'd think that church outreach would not be top-of-mind for many of today's politicians over fears of being called biased. For example, suggesting that the city is showing preference for Baptist churches over mosques or synagogues, or suggesting that only the religious would be allowed to take advantage of the sheltering service, or being told that they must hide their religious symbols so as not to offend stranded non-believers.
It's sad to think this way, but maybe people will be open to new ideas after this is over.
-PJ
It would only be tiresome attempting to remind this fool: Greatest Human Disasters of all times were only made possible BY the Government. Can one so casually forget: The Great Ukrainian Famine, Chinese Famine X2 and Cultural Revolution, Ethiopian Famine and Cambodian Disaster perpetrated by the Government.
Severe Storms are “Light weights” when it comes to perpetrating disaster upon a population. The Heavyweight Champions are always Totalitarian Dictatorships that only exist to “care for the welfare of the people”! Anyone who relies upon a Government for their personal well-being and safety is a fool!
“Only a highly educated man could believe anything that stupid”
Coastal elite wanna be.
I am not sure this will transfer to resistance against power grab but it is wonderful as a response to natural disaster. The left has to see it as a precursor to suddenly being faced with millions of armed and determined opponents, though.
Leftists do not want to be self-reliant. Seeing people who are morally and physically capable not merely of helping themselves, but voluntarily rescuing others, spotlights their inadequacy. To avoid this feeling, they want government to make the world into a giant “safe space”, fantasizing that this is not dependence, but something that is “owed” to them. I’d guess about 98% of New Yorker readers have this mentality.
Compare this from NBC Nightly News last night:
Houston and New Orleans: Tested by Tragedy, Bound by Resilience
“My faith in humanity has been restored by all of the fine volunteers that are helping us out.”
and
“Some 350 miles away, Ti Martin runs this restaurant [fwiw, it’s the famous “Commander’s Palace”] in New Orleans. Katrina closed it for 13 months. Now, she and others have launched fundraisers for Houston. ‘They had our back, and we’re gonna have their back.’”
https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/houston-and-new-orleans-tested-by-tragedy-bound -by-resilience-1039281219984
to this from The New Yorker. He reports more details, but ultimately he refuses to take off his ideological blinders:
Why Does America Need The Cajun Navy?
“There 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.” (”who felt”? So it was really the government, not neighbors or the “Cajun Navy”, who rescued them, and the weary Bells are confused or stubbornly refuse to acknowledge it?)
“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.”
(Answer: Because people helping each other is properly thought of as a rare, unfortunately necessary deviation — always a result of unprincipled Republican sabotage, of course — from The State being the sole and always-competent provider.)
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/why-does-america-need-the-cajun-navy
(You don’t have to wonder if he also takes a few lines to blame “climate change”.)
It’s worth noting that the quotes I pulled from the NBC clip are from real people, and the quotes from the New Yorker article are the blather of an ivory tower ideogogue.